BP and Shell face new shareholder revolt over tar sands

ENN, February 28, 2010

Investors want oil giants to answer questions on their involvement in the environmentally damaging extraction of oil from tar sands
Shareholders at BP and Shell will get the chance to vote at upcoming AGMs on whether to force oil giants to come clean on their Canadian tar sands involvement. Read more...

Canada’s Dirty Secret not so Secret Anymore

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...