Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

Indigenous

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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Mackenzie pipeline panel faces further delays

Mackenzie pipeline panel faces further delays
Last Updated: Thursday, June 14, 2007 | 11:06 AM CT
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2007/06/14/panel-delays.html#skip30...

The panel reviewing the proposed Mackenzie gas project says it needs more time before it can finalize its hearing schedule.

The joint review panel, which is looking at the environmental and social impacts of the $16.2-billion project, has been criticized for taking much longer to do its job than originally anticipated.

Ecologist Explains why Gateway Tarsands Pipeline is a Bad Idea

Council of Treaty 8 Chiefs Note Passage of Alaska Gasline Inducement Act

Council of Treaty 8 Chiefs Note Passage of Alaska Gasline Inducement Act
http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&sea...

Moratorium 'applies only to southbound oil-tanker traffic' (Yeah, right)

Ban doesn't apply in this case, ministers say
Moratorium 'applies only to southbound oil-tanker traffic'
Christina Montgomery, The Province
Published: Sunday, June 03, 2007
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=8eab3918-c7b2-49ca-...

When is a moratorium not a moratorium? Apparently, when governments decide it's just a "policy."

Tankers sailing into Kitimat

Tankers sailing into Kitimat
Environmentalists claim ban being violated
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=41e59307-af32-4f58-...
Christina Montgomery, The Province
Published: Sunday, June 03, 2007

Transport Canada has confirmed that, since January 2006, 14 tankers have sailed through the area covered by a federal tanker-traffic moratorium to deliver condensate -- a toxic solvent headed for Alberta's tar sands -- to Kitimat.

Mackenzie Gas Project: Now more than ever: "It's not economical"-- So Let's Kill it.

Now more than ever: Don't negotiate the pipeline, stop it. We have the best political environment, using their financial environment, to help protect the Deh Cho Valley environment from being used to kill the Athabascan environment. in other words, not since Thomas Berger was in the Valley has their been such coherent, palpable opposition to the construction of the MGP. People in the north know that climate change is real; their neighbours houses are washing into the Arctic Ocean and birds such as robins and barn owls that have never been in the north before are flying about these days.

Backlash against a whistle-blower

GLOBE & MAIL, MAY 19th by Andrew Nikiforuk

THE ENVIRONMENT: HEALTH AND SAFETY
Backlash against a whistle-blower
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070519.DOCTOR19/TPSto... nvironment

For years, Dr. John O'Connor has made headlines by continually asking why natives near the oil sands have so much cancer.
But that's not the only reason he's in such hot water now. Andrew Nikiforuk reports ANDREW NIKIFORUK May 19, 2007.
The Globe and Mail.

Ottawa Strong Armed Akaitcho into Relinquishing Valuable Lands

Ottawa 'strong-armed' Akaitcho in land claim: Bevington

Last Updated: Thursday, May 17, 2007 | 3:16 PM CT

CBC News

The federal government forced the Akaitcho Dene First Nations into not claiming areas where exploration companies want to look for uranium, Western Arctic NDP MP Dennis Bevington alleged Thursday.

Government of Canada Announces: "[N]ot considering ownership of the Mackenzie Gas Project"

Statement - Mackenzie Gas Project
http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/May2007/18/c3025.html

OTTAWA, May 18 /CNW Telbec/ - The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of
Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and
Non-Status Indians issued the following statement today regarding the
Mackenzie Gas Project:

In response to recent media coverage on the Mackenzie Gas Project, I
would like to take this opportunity to set the record straight on the federal
government's position on the project.

Tarsand Tankers and Pipelines on BC's Coast to be Discussed at Victoria Forum

TANKER TRAFFIC TALKED ABOUT

A public forum being held in Victoria on Tuesday, May 22 will examine the impact of oil tanker traffic in B.C. waters.
By Thomas Winterhoff
News staff
http://www.vicnews.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=36&cat=23&id=986802&m...
May 18 2007

May 22 public forum
will examine tanker traffic off B.C.’s coast

With Alberta’s tar sands fueling Canada’s booming oil industry, domestic and international energy companies are looking for better and faster ways to transport raw petroleum products to world markets.