Achuar Indigenous People from Peru inspect Canada’s tarsands.
Protesters dragged out of BP AGM after board avoids uncomfortable questions
Gulf Coast residents were cut short by the Chair, and environmental questions were brushed aside before last Thursday’s BP Annual General Meeting was disrupted by a “die-in” protest.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/04/protesters-dragged-out-of-bp-agm-after-board-avoids-uncomfortable-questions/.…
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London 2012 Olympics: Anti-BP activists carry out sponsor sacking hoax as protests grow
The official London 2012 Olympic Games website was faked on Wednesday by protesters demanding that BP be dropped as one of the event’s official sponsors.
Next Monday a coalition of three significant protest groups – …
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Tarsands News
European Fuel Quality Directive Update
The European Union has reached a stalemate in a vote to decide if tar sands oil is to be labeled as highly polluting. There were 89 votes for the proposal …
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Calling all foreign radicals!
UK Tar Sands Network comments on the Canadian government’s attack on tar sands opponents as ‘enemies of the state’.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/01/calling-all-foreign-radicals/.…
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Huge victory: Obama kills Keystone tarsands pipeline
Barack Obama rejected the controversial Keystone tar sands pipeline last Wednesday, making good on a promise not to give in to a Republican ultimatum on the project.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2012/01/huge-victory-obama-kills-keystone/.
Radicals working against oilsands, Ottawa says
Environmental and other “radical groups” are trying to block trade and undermine Canada’s economy, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said Monday.
Oliver’s comments came one day before federal regulatory hearings began on whether to approve …
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Canadian Indigenous Peoples to fight tarsands pipeline
Aboriginal groups in the Canadian Pacific province of British Columbia said on Thursday they had formed a united front to oppose all exports of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands through their territories.
See …
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UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project
The UK government has been giving secret support at the very highest levels to Canada’s campaign against European penalties on its highly polluting tar sands fuel, the Guardian can reveal.
At the same time, the …
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Canadian First Nations sue Shell for tar sands destruction
London, November 30th, 2011
On the eve of the 17th UNFCCC, the world’s climate summit, the UK Tar Sands Network will serve papers to Shell UK executives on behalf of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation …
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Pipe Dreams: Keystone delayed until 2013!
Obama delays the Keystone XL tarsands oil pipeline decision for over a year.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2011/11/pipe-dreams-keystone-delayed-until-2013/.
UK activists surround miniature White House as pipeline protests go global
Activists outside the US Embassy in London surrounded a model of the White House to protest against the proposed US Keystone XL pipeline. Holding banners that read “Obama NO!” and “Tar sands is blood oil”, …
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