Archive for 2010
http://www.youtube.com/v/6u8eozzlq6M?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata More: Elizabeth May / Ezra Levant Debate on Tar Sands
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November 26, 2010 was an historic day in Fort McMurray, Alberta, as the AJHL Fort McMuray Oil Barons hosted the first ever Junior outdoor hockey game in Canada.
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Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo visits the Alberta tar sands in Canada. Greenpeace is calling on oil companies and the government to stop the tar sands and end the industrialization of a vast area of Indigenous territories, forests and wetlands in northern Alberta. Help us fight for clean, renewable energy
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Located in Western Canada, Alberta is a province rich with a beautiful environment, abundant natural resources, a strong economy and a stable political system.
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James Cameron’s reaction after his first helicopter tour of oilsands development around Fort McMurray on September 27, 2010. The Hollywood director flew into Fort McMurray on Air Canada Jazz on Monday and will tour the oilsands and speak to aboriginals downstream in Fort Chipewyan on Tuesday
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Alberta Environment water specialist Preston McEachern explains how the Government of Alberta monitors the water quality of the Steepbank River in the Alberta oil sands region. Comments are welcome, but moderated
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Tanya Richens of Alberta Environment talks about how the land is reclaimed after it is used for oil sands development.
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High levels of toxic pollutants in Alberta’s Athabasca River system are linked to oilsands mining, researchers have found. The findings counter the reports by a joint industry-government panel that the pollutant levels are due to natural sources rather than human development
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Tar Sands in Alberta is Canada’s worst environmental disaster. Please share this video with your friends and family in order to help spread the word.
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In her speech to the 2010 Wildrose Alliance AGM, party leader Danielle Smith shows how critics of the oil sands are distorting the truth about the industry, and how the PC government of Ed Stelmach has failed to defend Alberta’s interests.
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Democracy NOW! – DN! – 1/2 A group of lawmakers are calling on the Obama administration to take a closer look at the significant environmental impacts of a proposed massive pipeline that would carry Canadian tar sands oil 2000 miles from northern Alberta all the way down to refineries in Texas and tankers off the Gulf Coast. Tar sands mining emits three times more greenhouse gas pollution than traditional oil and has come under heavy criticism from environmental and indigenous groups. Democracy Now!’s Mike Burke speaks to Clayton Thomas-Müller, a Canadian indigenous activist with the Indigenous Environmental Network.Published with written permission from democracynow.org.
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www.search-fort-mcmurray-homes.com Lower Townsite is the historic centre of the community. Situated in the picturesque Clearwater River Valley, it contains the majority of commercial development as well as major public facilities such as the library, municipal offices, court house and RCMP detachment. With a population of approximately 12000, the residential areas of the Lower Townsite consist mainly of single family homes, multi-unit condominiums and apartments.
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