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hi all<br><br>
please publish this, forward it, post it on blogs, websites, facebooks,
etc- apologies to those who already received this...<br>
thanks,<br>
Tony <br>
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<b><u>DEC. 10- PREVENTING CLIMATE CHANGE CHAOS<br><br>
</u></b>ECOPEI invites all activists committed to preventing climate
change chaos to a film-showing and discussion at UPEI Faculty
Lounge, Main Bldg., 7-9pm on Mon., Dec. 10th. To get involved and for
more details, please contact Tony Reddin at 675-4093
<marionc@isn.net> or Shannon Hartigan 569-7990
<Shannon@isn.net>, or go to
<a href="http://www.climatechaos.ca/" eudora="autourl">
www.climatechaos.ca</a> and
<a href="http://www.ecopei.ca/" eudora="autourl">www.ecopei.ca</a> .<br>
Discussion will be inspired by a 48-page Special Issue on the Alberta Tar
Sands recently published by 'The Dominion'- Canada's Grassroots
Newspaper, now available at Econet, UPEI, the VRC and the C/C library;
see also <a href="http:///" eudora="autourl">http://</a>
dominionpaper.ca/tarsands and info below. [articles include Kim
Petersen's report on the community of Fort Chipewyan and the effects on
water downstream from the Tar Sands; Lindsay Bird's account of working in
a camp near Fort McMurray; a series of comics by Katie Beaton, and much,
much more!] <br>
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<b><u>You may have heard about the Tar Sands.<br><br>
</u></b>If you're in the Maritimes, you probably know someone who works
there. If you live in Alberta, you probably hear about it being a major
source of economic growth. If you're connected to environmental groups,
you probably know that continued development in the Tar Sands will make
it impossible for Canada to meet its treaty obligations under the Kyoto
Protocol.<br>
You may have seen some footage of big trucks on TV.<br>
The Tar Sands are on pace to become the largest industrial project in
human history, built on public land and subsidized by provincial and
federal governments. And yet, very few people have a substantial
understanding of the world's first "Gigaproject." In
addition to being unfathomably large, extraction of Tar Sands is also
setting global precedents in terms of how we deal with: The decline in
oil supply; Indigenous rights and title to land; Climate change and
emissions; Labour rights and migrant workers' rights; Use of public land;
and Corporate power and social movements.<br>
To increase public understanding of these issues, The Dominion has
assembled an army of writers, journalists, researchers, people directly
affected by the Tar Sands extraction, oil workers and others to explain
the far-reaching effects of Tar Sands development in Alberta and what it
means for the future in Canada and globally. For more, go to the website,
<a href="http:///" eudora="autourl">http://</a> dominionpaper.ca/tarsands
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