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Indigenous nations have protected the earth on their territories for thousands of years. With the government of Canada ignoring their sovereignty, nations not only see massive theft of resources that could help alleviate social problems, but their exacerbation through their further alienation from their own lands, often accompanying being overrun by development and southern workers, while having no self-determination during this process. In the south of Canada industrial farming displaced many nations with often genocidal results. In the north, a modern equivalent of that fate is only just beginning, wrought on by industrial oil and gas drilling schemes (among many industrial plans) that are condemning entire societies, languages and cultures to a precarious future, becoming minorities in their lands for the first time.

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Indigenous nations have protected the earth on their territories for thousands of years. With the government of Canada ignoring their sovereignty, nations not only see massive theft of resources that could help alleviate social problems, but their exacerbation through their further alienation from their own lands, often accompanying being overrun by development and southern workers, while having no self-determination during this process. In the south of Canada industrial farming displaced many nations with often genocidal results. In the north, a modern equivalent of that fate is only just beginning, wrought on by industrial oil and gas drilling schemes (among many industrial plans) that are condemning entire societies, languages and cultures to a precarious future, becoming minorities in their lands for the first time.

NDP says funding of tar sands land reclamation is too little for the job

Funds to reclaim oilsands land fall short: NDP
Not enough security, warns auditor general

By Jason Fekete, Calgary Herald March 1, 2011

Leaked documents show the Alberta government will collect $400 million less from energy producers over the next nine years for oilsands reclamation, the NDP charges, despite the auditor general warning the province is financially at risk.

Energy regulator okays Alberta’s ninth open-pit oil sands mine (Joslyn Mine)

Energy regulator okays Alberta’s ninth open-pit oil sands mine
JOSH WINGROVE
Edmonton— Globe and Mail Update
Published Thursday, Feb. 03, 2011

Despite mounting criticism from academics and the federal government over Alberta’s patchwork environmental monitoring regime, a provincial energy regulator approved the province’s ninth open-pit oil sands mine last week.

The approval is based on data from the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program, an industry-led body that has been the subject of extensive, pointed criticism from three separate reports over the past two months.

"Ditch oilsands monitoring group"

Ditch oilsands monitoring group

Edmonton Journal February 3, 2011

Imagine your boss gave you a job evaluation where you only passed one category out of nine. You would probably be packing up your desk or laying down your tools.

But not if your job was to monitor the impact of the oilsands on rivers and lakes. In that case, you'd be allowed to "adjust" your performance in the future.

Harper’s embrace of ‘ethical’ tar sands reignites 'dirty' arguments

Harper’s embrace of ‘ethical’ oil sands reignites 'dirty' arguments
STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA— From Saturday's Globe and Mail (January 08, 2011)

Stephen Harper is embracing the notion that Canada’s controversial oil sands are an “ethical” source of energy, strengthening his support of the maligned resource and kicking off a new chapter in the debate over what critics call “dirty oil.”

The Prime Minister told reporters Friday that his government wants to “explain to the world” that petroleum from Western Canada’s oil sands is superior in respects to crude from other countries.

How Ethical Are Canada's Ethical Funds?

How Ethical Are Canada's Ethical Funds?

By Larry Powell

January 12, 2011

"Conscientious" investments and the tar sands connection

I doubt that any investors with a social conscience would assume that the
"ethical" funds they hold would be helping pay for such projects as the
Alberta oil sands.

I certainly didn't. Though it turns out, I was wrong!

All five of Canada's major banks lend money to tar sands operators. And all
five are actually included in the portfolios of the many ethical investment
funds in this country.

Weaknesses monitoring tar sands pollution must be corrected, report says

Weaknesses monitoring oilsands pollution must be corrected, report says

By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News
December 21, 2010

OTTAWA — There are "significant" weaknesses in monitoring pollution from Alberta's oilsands sector that must be corrected, a scientific panel concluded in a report released Tuesday.

The findings were submitted to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government last week after a two-month analysis that was commissioned by former environment minister Jim Prentice.

Tar Sands tailings poisons muskeg and nearby First Nations community

Tar Sands tailings poisons muskeg and nearby First Nations community
By Ben Powless
| November 26, 2010
Rabble

[photos in original linked at bottom]

The trip out to the tar sands tailings pond reminded me of other recent trips to places where indigenous people were trying to survive.

Dirty Oil, Dirty Money: Who is Funding the Tar Sands Resistance?

Dirty Oil, Dirty Money: Who is Funding the Tar Sands Resistance?

by Sandra Cuffe
November 26, 2010
Vancouver Media Co-op

After years of online discussion and personal debates, anti-tar sands activists and Indigenous community members are taking the controversy around the role of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (ENGOs) in resistance movements to a public forum.

BP & Husky approve new tar sands project

Husky approves new oilsands project
Monday, November 29, 2010
CBC News

Calgary-based Husky Energy made three major announcements Monday, saying it has given the go-ahead for a $2.5-billion oilsands project, is cancelling plans to sell off its operations in southeast Asia and has acquired oil and gas properties in western Canada for $860 million.

The company said its board has agreed to proceed with the first phase of its Sunrise oilsands project in northern Alberta. That is due to produce 60,000 barrels per day when completed.
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