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“Join us in demanding climate leadership”

Alberta, Canada.- “We are in the tar sands again - showing our world leaders how to take real action on climate change. Right now 23 Greenpeace activists have blocked a bridge and shut down a conveyer belt at a Suncor upgrader facility in the tar sands of northern Alberta, Canada. A live stream of the action is available here.”

“Our people will continue to occupy the bridge and conveyer belt as long as possible in order to draw attention to the lack of climate action shown by world leaders - in the wake of the New York climate meetings and G20 meeting last week.”

“People and planet are dying for climate leadership - literally. It is estimated that climate change will kill 300,000 people this year and displace millions, yet our leaders fail to act on high emission energy projects like the tar sands - which are pushing us closer towards runaway climate change.”

“Visit the live stream to watch the activists live and take action yourself - we must continue to demand leadership on climate. We must demand an end to climate crimes like the tar sands.”

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4 comment(s)
Written by: Cacique, 30 Sep 2009 4:04 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Tar sands? What the freak? am i gonna have to pump that crap into my four wheel donkey soon?
Written by: EnricoRizzo This user is banned, 30 Sep 2009 5:28 PM
From: Puerto Rico, Oso Blanco Rio Piedras
this crap is one step above coal and a last resort let us hope they find an alternative before they need this crap ......Like drilling offshore and Nuclear
Written by: Canuck_1, 8 Oct 2009 1:13 PM
From: Canada
I wonder how they got there? On their bicycles or on their burro? Geographically they had to fly or drive... and they are complaining about the carbon footprint made by the oil sands. It really isnt that hard to extract the oil and pertochemicals - they just heat up the sand (injecting steam) and it melts and separates from the soil product. It is in the same concept as mining just a different processing technique.

Also - it is already there and there is no drilling or putting oil rigs to sea... if it is available and you can pick it off the ground.... isn't it better to use it than to ignore the existing resource and rely on the middle east for their oil?

Written by: abc200, 16 Oct 2009 9:56 AM
From: United Kingdom
Tar sands are very wastful in energy and GHG. All development should be stopped.
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