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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Tar sands update
Mass arrests at Washington tar sands protest
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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Tar sands news
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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BP exorcised from Tate Modern
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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Shining a light on Europe’s role in the Tar Sands
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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First Nations protest Tar Sands investments at RBS AGM
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
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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Keep Europe out of the Tar Sands!
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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Glencore and other mining companies set sights on London
Mining Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in London
A Glencore London float could value group at £30 billion plus
In what U.K. newspapers say could be the largest stock market IPO of the year, weekend reports …
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Climate crisis deepens as talks take place in China
World Gobbling Up Greenhouse Gas Budget: WWF
Greenhouse gas emissions worldwide risk overshooting by a third the threshold beyond which dangerous global warming looms, the environment group WWF said on Wednesday, urging climate talks in …
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RBS, the tarsands and the climate camp
How RBS funds ‘dirty oil’
Last weekend, Royal Bank of Scotland faced its biggest protests in a long history of protests. Environmental groups and hundreds of climate protesters camped on the lawn at RBS’s Gogarburn …
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Climate change after the talks in Bonn
Bonn Climate Negotiations
The recent UN climate talks in in Bonn have at least moved on from the fiasco at Copenhagen. However, the draft text that emerged at the end of the talks is still …
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