Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

Health

The Health implications in terms of these projects are vast, and not just the deadly explosions and industrial accidents that happen in production-—from reported increases in rare forms of cancer downstream from tar sands production to the pollution of fresh water leading to poisoned diets (fish, moose and plant toxicity)—-direct links are hard to establish but impossible to either rule out or ignore, especially where tarsand operations constitute overwhelmingly the greatest change to the environment in most corners of the continent effected directly by tarsand infrastructure.

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Anthem-- Comic

October 28, 2007

Anthem (click on the image)

by Katie Beaton

The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca

anthem.jpg

Drugs? -- Comic

October 30, 2007
Drugs

by Katie Beaton
(click on the image)

Noam Chomsky: Starving the Poor with Biofuels (link to outside hosting)

Starving the Poor
Noam Chomsky
Khaleej Times, May 15, 2007

The New York Times has decided to threaten this website for content involving this article by Noam Chomsky. Rather than allow their threats to dissuade you the reader from being able to read the article above by Mr Chomsky, we have found a place where it is linked and we do not carry it. We apologize for letting a large corporate newspaper bully us but we cannot afford to fight them, and it is you the person seeking information who pay that cost.

here is a link to the same article, hosted elsewhere:

Parkland on the Stelmach royalty decision

Stelmach royalty decision shows it will be business as usual for Alberta
In reality, royalties will fall by over $2 billion over the next ten years -- even with the changes announced Thursday

Diana Gibson and Ricardo Acuña, Freelance

Albertans can finally stop holding their breath. After extensive public consultation by the royalty review panel, lukewarm reception of the panel's report and extensive backroom consultation with industry, Premier Ed Stelmach has finally made his royalty policy announcement.

Every Penny-- Comic

"Every Penny"
Kate Beaton
October 20, 2007
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/comics/1493

Townies - Comic

October 19, 2007

Townies (Fort McMurray)
by Katie Beaton
The Dominion http://dominionpaper.ca

Sexual Harassment-- K Beaton Comic

October 17, 2007
Sexual Harrassment

by Katie Beaton

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/comics/1487

Gateway to Solidarity? Pipelines and Indigenous communities in Northern BC

Gateway to Solidarity?
Pipelines and Indigenous communities in Northern BC
October 19, 2007
by Carla Lewis

The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca

The coast near Kitimat will soon be a route for tankers carrying oil, diluents and liquid natural gas if the Gateway pipeline is constructed.

Two years ago, pipelines were the furthest concern from anyone's mind. But today, most Indigenous communities in British Columbia have heard of the proposed pipelines and company names like "Enbridge" and, to a lesser extent, "Pembina" are tossed around like Kleenex.

A New Wave of Exploitation

October 24, 2007
A New Wave of Exploitation
Canada, Alberta defy UN, sell off rights to disputed Lubicon land

by Kevin Thomas

The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca

Elder Reinie Jobin examines Lubicon land razed by oil companies. The Lubicon were not consulted or notified. Photo: Friends of the Lubicon

Working Full-Time: The work camps of Fort McMurray

October 17, 2007

Working Full-Time
The work camps of Fort McMurray

by Lindsay Bird

The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca

Two mechanics from site picked me up at the Fort McMurray Greyhound station at 2pm. I had spent the uncomfortable six-hour bus ride from Edmonton beside a large, sweating man from Bathurst, New Brunswick, who worked at the same site to which I was travelling. When this connection was discovered, he excitedly phoned his sons, also on-site, to tell them 'a girl was coming.' My introduction to the alternate society of work camps had begun.