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Archive | Tar Sands
Work and Ecological Justice
From Tar Sands to Green Jobs?
Canada’s carbon emissions cannot be stabilized using plans that are acceptable to the capitalist classes and their interest in endless accumulation. An ambitious vision of ecosocialist alternatives must connect restructuring of work to wider social transformations.
Articles & Reports
Ecosocialist resources, April 2016
Click and learn: 10 new recommended readings for green-lefts and left-greens
First Nations: Enbridge pipeline claim is ‘out of touch with reality’
B.C. Chiefs react with anger and disbelief to Enbridge claim that most impacted Aboriginal groups support its Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker plan
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Largest anti-fracking demo in U.S. history … Environmental justice, tar sands, and indigenous rights … Corporate land grabs in Pakistan … How international investment rules undermine agrarian justice … Climate scientists are right about how hot the planet is going to get
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Work and ecological justice; Nuclear in Bolivia; Indigenous voices on Peruvian deforestation; Renewables are not enough; Carbon trading or regulation?
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Naomi Klein’s most important book; Sea levels at 6000 year high; 2014 may be hottest year yet; Tar sands battle gaining strength; The other CO2 problem
Drawing a line in the tar sands
Book Review: Why opposition to the Alberta Tar Sands is central to the climate justice movement … and how this campaign is transforming activism itself
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The class politics of pipeline resistance; Environmentalists must stop ignoring the needs of poor nations when combating global warming; Tar sands, trade rules and the gutting of human rights for corporate; Communal lands – Theater of operations for the counterinsurgency
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Climate and growth in Vietnam; Tar sands in Quebec; Obama’s emissions plan; Oil-by-rail on trial; Nuclear energy; Climate change and carbon trading
White House on Keystone XL: Wrong questions, wrong answers
How can Obama suggest that the test for approving the XL pipeline is whether it accelerates our ride to climate hell, death, and disaster?
Bitumen vs cigarettes: Canada’s double standard on carcinogens
Carcinogens banned in restaurants and bars are encouraged in tar sands
EnergyEast tar sands pipeline faces growing opposition
TransCanada’s massive pipeline scheme is being challenged from First Nations, provincial and municipal governments, environmental and grassroots groups, and even from other pipeline companies. Together, these forces can stop the latest plan to spread dirty tar sands oil across Canada and around the world.
Stephen Harper pours bitumen on the fire
Canada’s prime minister won’t stop until the tar sands are completely mined and burned
Video: Robert Redford condemns tar sands development
Video: Robert Redford explains why the tar sands are good for oil companies but deadly for the Earth.
Tar Sands or Oil Sands? Behind the petro-spin
The term oil sands was invented by public relations flacks, to divert attention from just how dirty the Alberta bitumen deposits are. Andrew Nikiforuk explains why tar sands is the right name.
North Grenville’s powerful pipeline posters
How to promote a pipeline protest
Video: How tar sands threaten our communities
Video of meeting to protest Enbridge’s tar sand pipeline, organized by Toronto East End Against Line 9, August 25, 2013
Lessons of the Lac Mégantic oil train disaster
Oil-by-rail should be banned for safety reasons, but the explosion also adds to the argument for an urgent, emergency shift away from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.
Canada's energy regulator refuses to read this
People whose water, air and homes are endangered by Enbridge Line 9 have been refused the right to testify. We’re fighting back anyway.