Joe Oliver, Canada’s Natural Resources Minister, met with staunch opposition at the London School of Economics (LSE) on 20 October whilst promoting Canada as the next ‘Global Energy Superpower’.
Protesters presented an alternative perspective to …
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Protesters interrupted the Canada-Europe Energy Round table in London on Tuesday, to expose the UK government’s opposition to European legislation, which would label tar sands oil as highly polluting.
The campaigners stripped down to Union …
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Last week an ‘ecocide trial’ was held in London. The trial tested barrister Polly Higgins’ proposal for a crime of Ecocide – to hold to account directors of companies (rather than the company) who cause …
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The Royal Bank of Scotland, like most banks these days, likes to tout its green credentials. But PR flacks and fancy brochures can’t hide the fact that RBS is investing $7.5 billion into tar sands …
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UK Tar Sands Network tells us: The last month has seen a burst of action against the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, with 1,252 people arrested during two weeks of sit-ins in front of …
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The largest act of civil disobedience in the history of the U.S. environmental movement is unfolding in Washington, D.C., and Canadian tar sands is the focus. People are being arrested for standing up to Obama, …
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Why a First Nations student from British Columbia is taking on a controversial trans-Canadian pipeline project—through song
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/what-a-10-year-old-did-for-the-tar-sands?fb_ref=likebutton&fb_source=home_oneline
Civil Disobedience against the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that would bring Alberta Tar Sands “dirty” oil from …
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Monday saw extraordinary scenes as we joined Reverend Billy and the Church of Earthaluyah to exorcise the beast that is BP from the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. Filling the huge space inside the former power …
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UK Tar Sands Network and friends have been in Brussels for the Canada-EU trade talks. The tar sands may be being extracted in Canada, but the debate over the industry’s future is raging in Europe …
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Representatives from some of Canada’s First Nations demanded in person that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) stops financing the controversial tar sands industry in Alberta, Canada, at the bank’s AGM.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2011/04/first-nations-protest-tar-sands-investments-at-rbs-agm/.
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Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands is a two-hour visual tour de force, taking viewers inside the David and Goliath struggle playing out within one of the most compelling environmental issues of our …
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On January 14th 2011 a group of protesters invaded the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and demanded a meeting with Stephen Green, the new Minister for Trade. Calling themselves the “Big Society Trade Negotiators”, …
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