E-magazine, December 15, 2009
Canada is receiving heavy international scrutiny at COP15 for its mining of tar sands -- a sand and clay mixture containing a small percentage of a type of petroleum called bitumen, which can be converted into conventional oil -- in the province of Alberta. Activists are calling attention not just to the environmental toll of this fossil fuel extraction, but also to its impact on indigenous people in the region.
Last Wednesday, in an event organized by Climate Action Network Canada, about 50 young Canadian activists rallied at the COP15 summit for a moratorium on the tar sands work, both for its environmental and human rights impacts. Read more...
Last Wednesday, in an event organized by Climate Action Network Canada, about 50 young Canadian activists rallied at the COP15 summit for a moratorium on the tar sands work, both for its environmental and human rights impacts. Read more...
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