Archive for August, 2011
For a fourth straight day outside the White House, environmentalists were arrested for peacefully protesting a pipeline that would carry acidic crude oil from Western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, who spent the weekend with fellow demonstrators in a Washington jail, discusses the the success of the protest and the shortcomings of Obama’s environmental policy with Keith
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Trevor Howlett Today staff About 60 people gathered at the Casman Centre Tuesday morning to show their support and offer well wishes to the Fort McMurray Oil Barons, which will represent Team Canada in the first-ever World Junior Club Cup in Omsk, Russia.
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Actress and environmental advocate Daryl Hannah says she’s joining a protest outside the White House against the planned Keystone XL pipeline. Hannah says the environmental movement needs to engage in “courageous acts of civil disobedience” to stop projects like the pipeline, which would bring oil-sands crude from the Canadian province of Alberta to US refineries on the Gulf Coast
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Carol Christian Today staff There’s a new sign adorning the entrance to Fort McMurray, one imagination can render as trees, the northern lights or even the Clearwater River winding its way through forested banks.
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Carol Christian Today staff Buy local. That’s a message coming form the Fort McMurray Chamber of Commerce and the focus of a new campaign to benefit local businesses.
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Oscan nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) gives his powerful support to the Tar Sands Action, a two week sit-in at the White House to show President Obama he has the support of the people to stand up to Big Oil.
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DemocracyNow.org – Thousands of environmental activists from across the continent plan to gather in Washington, DC, tomorrow to launch a two-week protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to US oil refineries Gulf of Mexico. The massive pipeline would cross the Yellowstone River, as well as the Ogallala Aquifer, the largest freshwater aquifer in the United States. Environmentalists plan to hold sit-ins and other acts of civil disobedience outside the White House everyday in order to pressure the Obama administration as it decides whether to approve the pipeline’s construction.
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Trevor Howlett Today staff Friends of Shane Wambolt — the 26-year-old Fort McMurray man seeking reimbursement for a life-saving surgery in the United States — have set up a fund to raise money for him and his family.
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J. Zimmerman interviews Octavian Cadabeschi, activist from Environmental Defense and presenter from RadioLaria in Toronto
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