Delegate Marianne Douglas - climate scientist at the University of Alberta - makes the connection between oil sands expansion and global climate change.
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Breaking Ground: Women, Oil & Climate Change
Day 4 in Photos – Breaking Ground: Women, Oil & Climate Change
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TAKE ACTION – Support the Freedom Train and Yinka Dene Alliance
The Yinka Dene Alliance is a group of First Nations that have come together to ban the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline from their territory. In 2012, the Yinka Dene Alliance embarked on the Freedom Train travelling across Canada to enforce their legal ban on the Enbridge Northern Gateway oil ...read more
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Jody Williams: Still in the oil sands
October 9 (continued): After our meeting with the women at Ft. McKay, we rush back to Ft. McMurray for a lunch meeting with Jen Grant of Pembina Institute. She directs the oil sands project and tells us that Pembina’s perspective is that money from the oil sands should be used to transition away ...read more
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Day 3 in Photos – Breaking Ground: Women, Oil & Climate Change
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Day 2 in Photos – Breaking Ground: Women, Oil & Climate Change
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Stories from the Road – Women of Prince George Speak Out
After three days of listening and learning from women living in and around the oil sands of Alberta, the delegation moved on to British Columbia to hear from women about the pipeline projects that are planned in and near their communities carrying the highly toxic bitumen from the Alberta oil sands ...read more
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Stories from the Road – Summit Lake
I live at Summit Lake, which is on the Arctic Divide and the headwaters of the Crooked River which flows north into the Parsnip, Peace and eventually Mackenzie River. The proposed Enbridge pipeline would cross the Crooked River 25 km north of here just south of Davie Lake. There would be a pumping ...read more
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TAKE ACTION – Stop the Enbridge Gateway Pipeline!
Add your voice to stop the Enbridge pipeline!
Petition from Greenpeace Canada:
The Harper government is actively supporting the construction of a new pipeline to take tar sands bitumen from Alberta to the BC coast and load it onto supertankers destined for Asia. The Enbridge ‘Northern Gateway’ ...read more
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[Video] Sarah Harmer and the power of the people!
http://youtu.be/oBiFG_8E6fc
Congratulations PERL - all your hard work has saved a precious piece of the planet for all of us and shown once again that a small group of people really can change the world! You are an inspiration to all of us.
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Nelson Quarry expansion denied, ...read more
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