DATE: July 16, 2010. Unist’ot’en organize a large demonstration rally to notify governments and industry about their existing regulatory regime and of their responsibility to protect and restore their devastated environments

Smithers, BC: The ‘Unist’ot’en of the Wet’suwet’en Nation alongside their grassroots allies and supporters assembled in Smithers to organize a rally designed to assert their title and rights on their ancient lands. The rally was organized and led by the ‘Unist’ot’en leadership and had the demonstrators primarily target the Ministry of Forests offices and the Ministry of Environment office. The following is the list of demands that were delivered to the Ministry offices who issue permits and licences for industry and private interests.

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WhatÂ’s more important, water or oil?

Monday, October 12th 1:15pm. (Panel to begin after the film). Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St

H2Oil, a challenge to the unregulated development of AlbertaÂ’s oil sands, will have its West Coast premiere on Sunday, October 11th and Monday October 12thth as part of the Vancouver International Film FestivalÂ’s The Way of Nature section. The environmental battle over the oil sands is going global. The news of H2OilÂ’s Vancouver premiere comes on the heels of major mounting international opposition from Norway to Washington.  Just this month, a delegation from Fort Chipewyan stirred up headlines at the Climate Camp in London as they targeted the “corporate climate criminals”, such as British Petroleum, and the banks that back the oil sands. All this in the wake of China’s $1.9-billion investment into Alberta means that bitumen – its lucrative and its destructive sides – seems to be on everyone’s minds.

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Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday, September 15, 2009

EDMONTON — Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace say they have seized a giant dump truck and shovel at Shell’s Albian Sands open-pit oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray. A news release from the group says about 25 protesters from Canada, the U.S. and France entered the mine site at 8 a.m. and blockaded the truck and shovel by chaining together pickup trucks. Two groups of activists then scaled the machines and chained themselves down while a third unveiled a giant banner reading: “Tar Sands: Climate Crime.”

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Zoe Cormier, Globe and Mail, Sep. 04, 2009

‘Blame Canada, blame Canada – it seems like everything’s gone wrong since the tar sands came along,” several hundred South Park -inspired protesters sang outside the Canadian Embassy here this week. “Blame Canada, blame Canada, they’re not really a green country any more.” Barely a day after the news that China’s national petroleum company has invested $1.9-billion in the mammoth Athabasca oil sands, the demonstrators spent a tumultuous hour outside the embassy, handing out flyers calling on Canada to “respect aboriginal and treaty rights” by shutting the entire project down. The giant banners they carried declared: “Tar sands = dirtiest oil on earth” and “Tar sands oil is blood oil.”

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