IF COURAGE HAD ANOTHER NAME, IT WOULD BE GREENPEACE! ACTIVISTS INFILTRATE THE TAR SANDS!
Joseph Raglione
September 16, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, if courage had another name, it would be GreenPeace. Young and courageous activists have infiltrated the giant Tar Sands operation at Fort McMurray Alberta and they have halted operations...>
September 15, 2009
Greenpeace: Stopping the Tar Sands on site, in Alberta.
At this very moment, deep in the remote tar sands in northern Alberta, 25 daring Greenpeace activists have infiltrated Shell´s Albian Sands open-pit mine. They have blocked a massive shovel and a three-storey high dump truck and a giant hydraulic shovel from further destroying Alberta's landscape.
Take Action, sign the KYOTOplus petition and become a climate defender!
Send an email to Harper´s office and tell him that this meeting with Obama is the perfect
opportunity to turn off the taps on dirty oil and prevent catastrophic climate change.
Spread the word! Post this to Twitter, Facebook or MySpace.
Digg it, bump it up on Reddit and Stumbleupon, tell your friends and your family that the tar sands is pushing the climate past the tipping point and must be stopped.
They have effectively shut down five trucks. They are locked down and campaigner Mike Hudema is doing interviews from the cab of a truck, where he is locked down.
The action started at 8 a.m. this morning. Teams of activists with six pick up trucks entered the Shell site at about 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray.
Watch the live streaming video. See the extreme lengths our activists are going to, to send a clear message to the world leaders: end our addiction to dirty oil, Stop the Tar Sands.
The pick up blocked around the giant machinery and chained the pick-up trucks together, preventing the shovel and dump truck from causing any more damage to the already fragile environment.
Activists scaled a monster truck and the giant shovel, occupied the shovel and the cab of the truck and locked themselves in place. Another team laid banners across the ground reading, "Tar Sands: Climate Crime."
Our courageous activists are in a remote location, but they´re not out of reach. Please send them a message and show your support. Email activists@greenpeace.ca
Remind them that they´re not alone! Tell them world leaders must develop a solid global climate pact at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December. We´ll never have a healthy climate as long as the world is investing in the dirtiest oil on the planet.
Through its KYOTOplus campaign, Greenpeace Canada is working to convince the Harper government to become a leader at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
And we need your help! Take Action!
Activists block tar sands mining operation to send message to Obama and Harper: Climate leaders don´t buy tar sands...
15 September 2009Print Send to a friend Tar Sands Climate Crime
Enlarge ImageFort McMurray, Canada — On the eve of the Harper-Obama meeting in Washington D.C., Greenpeace activists are locking down and blockading a giant dump truck and shovel at Shell´s massive Albian Sands open-pit mine in northern Alberta to send the message that the tar sands are a global climate crime that must be stopped.
Update...
More than 12 hours and counting: At 8:45 p.m. in Fort McMurray) Greenpeace activists are still blockading at Shell´s Albian Sands open-pit mine in the Alberta tar sands.
The action on the eve of the Harper-Obama meeting in Washington put "Canada´s oil sands … smack in the middle of U.S.-Canadian relations" according to a Wall Street Journal blog. Our live streaming video from the site should give people a real sense of the incredible destruction of tar sands operations.
Shell put out a release recognizing Greenpeace´s right to protest, and also claiming that a report put out by Pembina/WWF in the past year rated Shell "the best oil sands mining operation." Pembina immediately blasted that claim; saying Shell´s environmental rating in their report was "getting worse, not better." Pembina also said Shell was demonstrating disregard for its commitments it has made to its stakeholder by abandoning a written commitment to the Oil Sands Environmental Coalition.
Greenpeace´s day at the frontier of climate destruction brought much needed attention to the serious threat of climate change.
Live video from the tar sands (signal goes in & out):
Live TV : Ustream
The 25 activists from Canada, the United States and France entered the mine, about 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, at 8:00 a.m. They blockaded a giant three-storey dump truck and hydraulic shovel by chaining together pick-up trucks. Two teams then scaled the truck and shovel and chained themselves to them, while another team placed giant banners on the tarry ground reading, "Tar Sands: Climate Crime."
"Greenpeace has come here today, to the frontiers of climate destruction to block this giant mining operation and tell Harper and Obama meeting tomorrow that climate leaders don´t buy tar sands" said Mike Hudema, Greenpeace Canada climate and energy campaigner, from inside the blockade. "The tar sands are a devastating example of how our future will look unless urgent action is taken to protect the climate."
Canada is now the number one exporter of oil to the US, most of which is dirty tar sands oil. The climate crimes of tar sands development—rising energy intensity, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and Boreal forest destruction—are leading the world to climate chaos.
The world´s oil addiction has turned the tar sands into the biggest industrial project on the planet, occupying an area the size of England. Tar sands GHG emissions, already nearing those of Norway, could soon more than triple to 140 million tonnes a year, as outlined in a Greenpeace report by award winning author Andrew Nikiforuk released this week. At that point they would equal or exceed those of Belgium, a county of 10 million. These numbers account only for the production of tar sands oil, and do not account for the massive additional GHG impact of burning the fuel.
"The tar sands are at the leading edge of climate chaos. Climate leadership from President Obama, Prime Minister Harper and other world leaders means abandoning the dirty oil that is pushing our planet to climate collapse and forging a green energy economy and a healthy world for our children."
Today´s action targeted Shell, but other major companies including BP, Suncor, Syncrude, ExxonMobil, Total and StatoilHydro run tar sands operations that put them at the forefront of oil addiction.
Urgent action on the climate must be front and centre at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December. With fewer than 90 days left to the most important climate negotiations in history, Greenpeace is calling on world leaders to end to the climate catastrophe that is the Alberta tar sands and to commit to deep emissions cuts at Copenhagen.
"World leaders need to turn away from the dirtiest oil on the planet and embrace clean energy alternatives" said Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner Melina Laboucan-Massimo. "Until they do, oil interests will continue to dominate and Canada will continue to obstruct crucial international climate talks like those in Copenhagen."
Through its KYOTOplus campaign, Greenpeace Canada is working to convince the Harper government to become a leader at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
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September 15, 2009
Greenpeace: Stopping the Tar Sands on site, in Alberta.
At this very moment, deep in the remote tar sands in northern Alberta, 25 daring Greenpeace activists have infiltrated Shell´s Albian Sands open-pit mine. They have blocked a massive shovel and a three-storey high dump truck and a giant hydraulic shovel from further destroying Alberta's landscape.
Take Action, sign the KYOTOplus petition and become a climate defender!
Send an email to Harper´s office and tell him that this meeting with Obama is the perfect
opportunity to turn off the taps on dirty oil and prevent catastrophic climate change.
Spread the word! Post this to Twitter, Facebook or MySpace.
Digg it, bump it up on Reddit and Stumbleupon, tell your friends and your family that the tar sands is pushing the climate past the tipping point and must be stopped.
They have effectively shut down five trucks. They are locked down and campaigner Mike Hudema is doing interviews from the cab of a truck, where he is locked down.
The action started at 8 a.m. this morning. Teams of activists with six pick up trucks entered the Shell site at about 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray.
Watch the live streaming video. See the extreme lengths our activists are going to, to send a clear message to the world leaders: end our addiction to dirty oil, Stop the Tar Sands.
The pick up blocked around the giant machinery and chained the pick-up trucks together, preventing the shovel and dump truck from causing any more damage to the already fragile environment.
Activists scaled a monster truck and the giant shovel, occupied the shovel and the cab of the truck and locked themselves in place. Another team laid banners across the ground reading, "Tar Sands: Climate Crime."
Our courageous activists are in a remote location, but they´re not out of reach. Please send them a message and show your support. Email activists@greenpeace.ca
Remind them that they´re not alone! Tell them world leaders must develop a solid global climate pact at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December. We´ll never have a healthy climate as long as the world is investing in the dirtiest oil on the planet.
Through its KYOTOplus campaign, Greenpeace Canada is working to convince the Harper government to become a leader at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
And we need your help! Take Action!
Activists block tar sands mining operation to send message to Obama and Harper: Climate leaders don´t buy tar sands...
15 September 2009Print Send to a friend Tar Sands Climate Crime
Enlarge ImageFort McMurray, Canada — On the eve of the Harper-Obama meeting in Washington D.C., Greenpeace activists are locking down and blockading a giant dump truck and shovel at Shell´s massive Albian Sands open-pit mine in northern Alberta to send the message that the tar sands are a global climate crime that must be stopped.
Update...
More than 12 hours and counting: At 8:45 p.m. in Fort McMurray) Greenpeace activists are still blockading at Shell´s Albian Sands open-pit mine in the Alberta tar sands.
The action on the eve of the Harper-Obama meeting in Washington put "Canada´s oil sands … smack in the middle of U.S.-Canadian relations" according to a Wall Street Journal blog. Our live streaming video from the site should give people a real sense of the incredible destruction of tar sands operations.
Shell put out a release recognizing Greenpeace´s right to protest, and also claiming that a report put out by Pembina/WWF in the past year rated Shell "the best oil sands mining operation." Pembina immediately blasted that claim; saying Shell´s environmental rating in their report was "getting worse, not better." Pembina also said Shell was demonstrating disregard for its commitments it has made to its stakeholder by abandoning a written commitment to the Oil Sands Environmental Coalition.
Greenpeace´s day at the frontier of climate destruction brought much needed attention to the serious threat of climate change.
Live video from the tar sands (signal goes in & out):
Live TV : Ustream
The 25 activists from Canada, the United States and France entered the mine, about 60 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, at 8:00 a.m. They blockaded a giant three-storey dump truck and hydraulic shovel by chaining together pick-up trucks. Two teams then scaled the truck and shovel and chained themselves to them, while another team placed giant banners on the tarry ground reading, "Tar Sands: Climate Crime."
"Greenpeace has come here today, to the frontiers of climate destruction to block this giant mining operation and tell Harper and Obama meeting tomorrow that climate leaders don´t buy tar sands" said Mike Hudema, Greenpeace Canada climate and energy campaigner, from inside the blockade. "The tar sands are a devastating example of how our future will look unless urgent action is taken to protect the climate."
Canada is now the number one exporter of oil to the US, most of which is dirty tar sands oil. The climate crimes of tar sands development—rising energy intensity, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and Boreal forest destruction—are leading the world to climate chaos.
The world´s oil addiction has turned the tar sands into the biggest industrial project on the planet, occupying an area the size of England. Tar sands GHG emissions, already nearing those of Norway, could soon more than triple to 140 million tonnes a year, as outlined in a Greenpeace report by award winning author Andrew Nikiforuk released this week. At that point they would equal or exceed those of Belgium, a county of 10 million. These numbers account only for the production of tar sands oil, and do not account for the massive additional GHG impact of burning the fuel.
"The tar sands are at the leading edge of climate chaos. Climate leadership from President Obama, Prime Minister Harper and other world leaders means abandoning the dirty oil that is pushing our planet to climate collapse and forging a green energy economy and a healthy world for our children."
Today´s action targeted Shell, but other major companies including BP, Suncor, Syncrude, ExxonMobil, Total and StatoilHydro run tar sands operations that put them at the forefront of oil addiction.
Urgent action on the climate must be front and centre at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December. With fewer than 90 days left to the most important climate negotiations in history, Greenpeace is calling on world leaders to end to the climate catastrophe that is the Alberta tar sands and to commit to deep emissions cuts at Copenhagen.
"World leaders need to turn away from the dirtiest oil on the planet and embrace clean energy alternatives" said Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner Melina Laboucan-Massimo. "Until they do, oil interests will continue to dominate and Canada will continue to obstruct crucial international climate talks like those in Copenhagen."
Through its KYOTOplus campaign, Greenpeace Canada is working to convince the Harper government to become a leader at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen in December.
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