Animals

August 30, 2009
Why we are all climate camp followers now

The atmosphere at the Climate Camp in Blackheath, southeast London, last week was resolutely good-natured
Giles Hattersley

It is the Thursday morning rush hour in Blackheath, southeast London. The roads around the park are clogged with commuters, and, overhead, planes are ascending from nearby City airport at an alarming rate.

Beneath a cloud of transport fumes lies Camp Climate, home to 1,000 slightly smelly, resolutely cheerful, mostly middle-class do-gooders who plan to save the world.

First Nations take oilsands concerns to U. K.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/First+Nations+take+oilsands+conc...

<>By Hanneke Brooymans, Edmonton JournalAugust 28, 2009

Three First Nations people from northern Alberta are in London,
protesting the involvement of United Kingdom companies in oilsands
development.

Residents of Fort Chipewyan are especially concerned about some types of
cancer in their communities.

"Because of the people in my community dying and being sick, that's not

Canada's bloody oil

UK companies are extracting oil from our traditional lands. We believe it's killing us – and that's why I'm attending Climate Camp
o George Poitras
o guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 August 2009

Native Americans to join London climate camp protest over tar sands

Canadian First Nations seek to highlight UK's 'criminal' role in CO2-heavy oil schemes

Terry Macalister
guardian.co.uk,
Sunday 23 August 2009

Native Americans are to join the Climate Camp protests in the City of London this week in an attempt to draw attention to corporate Britain's "criminal" involvement in the tar sands of Canada.

Five representatives from the Cree First Nations are coming to co-ordinate their campaign against key players in the carbon-heavy energy sector with British environmentalists.

Environmentalists trying to stop sound bombs

Updated: Fri Aug. 14 2009 09:31:54

The Canadian Press

Environmentalists are in Federal Court hoping to block seismic testing that will send high decibel blasts into the ocean off Vancouver Island, possibly harming whales and other marine life in the area.

A U.S. research team wants to investigate the tectonic plates making up the ocean sub-floor around the Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents marine protected area, 250 kilometres west of Vancouver Island.

Nuclear Power Causes Cancer: What Industry Doesn't Want You To Know
Samuel Epstein,
Cancer prevention expert, prof. emeritus at U. of IL School of Public Health, Chicago
August 4, 2009
Huffington Post

Dene Chief Upset Over Canadian Defence Report
By SHAWN BELL, SRJ Reporter 21.JUL.09

Bill Erasmus Dene National Chief

The Dene Nation has denounced a new report that claims Treaty 8 First Nations pose a threat of violence to oilsands and other resource development in Western Canada.
The report, prepared for the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute by Tom Flanagan, states that incidences of violence and protests over resource development will continue as Aboriginal rights and environmentalist movements grow.

The Beaver Lake Cree Nation vs the Tar Sands

July 15th, 2009

The following article was written by Drew Mildon, a lawyer at the Canadian law firm Woodward and Company. Woodward and Company is overseeing the Beaver Lake Cree Nation law suit against the Government of Canada.

At what price 'white man's money'?

The candidates vying to succeed Grand Chief Phil Fontaine next week pretty much agree that economic development is the key to prosperity for Canada's native people. Many others, however, fear the cost. The Globe and Mail's Shawn McCarthy reports

Shawn McCarthy OTTAWA - From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Saturday, Jul. 18, 2009

Each spring, Art Sterritt and his family gather at his wife's ancestral home among B.C.'s Gitga'at people to harvest seaweed, clams and cockles on the shores of Hartley Bay near Kitimat.

Head in the sands
North Shore News
Published: Wednesday, July 08, 2009

THE Liberal Party of Canada will help destroy the world.

That's the message delivered to Albertans this week by Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff. Presumably he is hoping it will be enough to get him elected.