Animals

While Corporate fronts like the CBI and others have promoted "trading" "permission" for the Mackenzie Gas Project as a way to get "more" protected areas in exchange for this development, the reality is that construction of this pipeline is not only awful in and of its own right, it is also development that pertains to the beginning-- not the end-- of development of the entire north in terms of industrialization. This polemic has been raised many times before-- but the fact that developers are speaking openly stating this fact is something to grasp immediately.

A Place at the Table?
The Great Bear Rainforest and ForestEthics

from "Offsetting Resistance: The effects of foundation funding from the Great Bear Rainforest to the Athabasca River", a special report by Dru Oja Jay and Macdonald Stainsby.

Released September, 2009.

http://www.offsettingresistance.ca/

Imperial welcomes regulator move on Arctic gas line

Vancouver Sun
NEWS SERVICES
OCTOBER 8, 2009

Imperial Oil Ltd. welcomed word from Canadian regulators on Thursday that
final arguments in the review of the $16.2-billion Mackenzie gas pipeline
are set for April, but it could not say if the timeline would allow
construction in 2010.

Imperial, lead partner in the long-delayed Arctic gas project, said the
National Energy Board's announcement of the date adds some certainty to
the process that began with its application to build the pipeline five
years ago.

'H2Oil' Tears up the Tar Sands

Documentary focusing on Fort Chipewyan becomes a powerful tool for climate change activists.

By Dawn Paley, October 8, 2009, TheTyee.ca

When Lionel Lepine's plane landed in London, England in August after a long flight from northern Alberta, his initial reaction was culture shock. It was Lepine's first time flying overseas. The occasion was the Climate Camp for Action, an event now in its third year, which brings together hundreds of grassroots activists who are willing to take direct action in the fight against climate change.

First Nations says no to pipeline

CAROL CHRISTIAN
Fort McMurray Today
22 September 2009

A B.C. First Nation has given Enbridge a resounding "no" when it comes to the Northern Gateway pipeline going through the Gitga'at lands, from the Alberta oilsands to the Pacific coast.

Not only are the Gitga'at concerned about environmental impacts, there are concerns it will mean cultural devastation for the First Nation that remains largely dependent on the traditional way of life.

U.S., Canada ties get messy with oil sands issue
As Obama and Harper meet, activists block mine and company faces trial
Sept. 16, 2009
MSNBC

WASHINGTON - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday met with President Barack Obama at the White House, bringing with him some environmental baggage: Activists back home were squatting at a huge open pit mine used to get oil from tar sands, while a company this week pleaded not guilty to charges it was negligent in the deaths of 1,600 birds that flew into a tar sands waste reservoir.

Syncrude pleads not guilty to duck deaths
September 15, 2009
ROLAND CILLIERS
Fort McMurray Today staff

Syncrude Canada is pleading not guilty to government charges laid as a result of 1,606 birds that were killed on the companies work-site last year.

Grizzlies starve as salmon disappear
As salmon numbers drop, bears are also few and far between along B.C.'s wild central coast – signalling what conservationists say is an unfolding ecological disaster
Mark Hume
Vancouver — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Sep. 09, 2009

First the salmon vanished, now the bears may be gone too.

BP’s “Bloody Petroleum” targeted in protest by indigenous activists and Climate Camp
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BP’s “Bloody Petroleum” targeted in protest by indigenous activists and Climate Camp

Photo and filming opportunities on Tuesday September 1, 2009 from 11am (London, UK time) at the North East corner of Trafalgar Square, press conference 12.30pm (London, UK time) outside BP Headquarters, 1 St James’ Square. Photos of the day will also be available for publication by request.

Return to Tarmageddon
An Italian company's plan to develop tar sands in the Congo has activists worried
by Ben Powless

The Dominion
August 28, 2009

IGLESIAS, ITALY—You’ve likely heard about the tar sands in northern Alberta. You’re probably familiar with the devastation—environmental and social—this megaproject has brought to the land. Maybe you even have a relative who lives or works there.