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 this week. On Monday 11th July, the next round of Canada-EU trade negotiations (CETA) began. These secretive talks could be dangerous.
British companies Shell and BP are involved in the Alberta tar sands ‘development’ and Royal Bank of Scotland is helping finance it.
See http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2011/07/shining-a-light-on-europes-role-in-the-tar-sands/.
Video: To the Last Drop
Residents of one Canadian town are engaged in a David and Goliath-style battle over the dirtiest oil project ever known. The small town of Fort Chipewyan in northern Alberta is facing the consequences of being the first to witness the impact of the Tar Sands project, which may be the tipping point for oil development in Canada. The local community has experienced a spike in cancer cases and dire studies have revealed the true consequences of “dirty oil”. Gripped in a Faustian pact with the American energy consumer, the Canadian government is doing everything it can to protect the dirtiest oil project ever known.
See http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/witness/2011/06/20116227153978324.html.