Challenging the Alberta Tar Sands Operation

Published on: July 9, 2010

Written by: WDNStaff

The Earth Action Circle invites you to a teleconference and webinar 

  Challenging the Alberta Tar Sands Operation

Tuesday, July 20

10:00am PDT

The oil drilling and mining operation in the Alberta Tar Sands is one of the largest and most destructive projects on earth. ^[1] The Tar Sands deposits are situated under Canada’s Boreal Forest, which is currently being strip-mined and drilled to produce dirty oil that is primarily consumed in the United States. On top of the destruction of pristine forests, this massive extraction operation has contaminated critical waterways and led to serious health problems for the Native Canadian communities living in or near the Forest. To reach the US market for tar sands oil, the oil industry is building an extensive network of pipelines and refineries throughout the US, much of it crisscrossing over Native lands and reservations, further endangering communities and wildlife habitats. Furthermore, the oil industry intends to transport extra-large mining and processing equipment through the pacific northwest states to the tar sands of Alberta.

Please join us for this important call and hear from some of the key organizers working to fight the tar sands operations. They will discuss some of the different strategies -- from blocking the supply chain to stopping the pipelines, to ending the extraction process. Our guest speakers will be Eriel Deranger, from the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations of Northern Alberta and Rainforest Action Network’s Freedom From Oil Campaigner; Marty Cobenais, a member of the Red Lake Tribe and Pipeline Campaigner for the Indigenous Environmental Network, and Summer Nelson, working with Northern Rockies Rising Tide on their heavy haul campaign.

^[1] Tar Sands Invasion report, Executive Summary (May 2010), p. 7.

For more information contact Kathleen Andreson.

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