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Campaign Goals

We call on the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta to take the necessary steps to invoke a MORATORIUM on the further expansion of the Alberta tar sands until a set of basic environmental and social conditions are satisfactorily achieved.

Read Moratorium Now! --- 6 good reasons for bringing a halt to the expansion of the tar sands [a backgrounder]
Read the Fueling Fortress America Report
Read A Dirty Little Secret

Take Action
There is something that you can do about the Alberta Tar Sands! We need to let our government and industry officials know that we are aware of what is happening and what we want done about it, by sending an electronic letter.

Latest from Polaris

Polaris Institute, with the Parkland Institute released a report entitled Freezing in the Dark: Why Canada Needs Strategic Petroleum Reserves. Canada is currently the most vulnerable country in the industrial world to short-term oil supply crises, and we need to establish strategic petroleum reserves to remedy the problem.

The report points out the precariousness of current global oil supplies, especially given current tensions in the Middle East, and fact that Canada imports close to 1 million barrels of oil per day to supply the needs of central and eastern provinces.

It is available from http://www.polarisinstitute.org/eastern_canada_vulnerable_to_oil_shortag...

-Also-
A growing coalition of individuals and organizations have released a common statement calling the AB government to cease approving tar sands projects. We are calling, with one voice, for the Alberta Government to take the first step. The time is now to stop the uncontrolled oil sands development and deal with the environmental and social concerns that it has created.

Regardless of the reason, there is one thing we all agree on - the first step is to stop adding to the problem.

We are now seeking individual and organizational signatures to this statement in order to show a groundswell of support emphasizing our collective belief. Please sign the petition and join to growing number of voices calling for no new approvals on oil sands development!

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News Updates

Green groups urge upholding U.S. tar sands fuel ban; Letter to Congress pleads with Senate to reject Canadian movement to remove

Posted: May 9, 2008
Martin Mittelstaedt, May 8, 2008, Globe and Mail -- A who's who of major U.S. and Canadian...Read More

Canada could make Kyoto strides with carbon capture

Posted: May 9, 2008
Barbara Yaffe, May 9, 2008, Vancouver Sun -- Canada has been talking fast but moving slowly to...Read More

Aboriginal partners sought for hydro plan; Run-of-river power project years away, but could replace coal-fired plants

Posted: May 9, 2008
Gordon Jaremko, May 8, 2008, The Edmonton Journal -- Aboriginal ownership partners will be sought...Read More

CANADA: Oil sands emissions take back seat to job concerns, Alberta officials say

Posted: May 7, 2008
Debra Kahn, ClimateWire reporter -- Job security and fuel production trump global warming concerns...Read More

Imperial in Kearl showdown; Green Challenge

Posted: May 7, 2008
Claudia Cattaneo, May 7, 2008, Financial Post -- A showdown between the environmental movement and...Read More

Keeping U.S. tanks full; 2007, Canada shipped an astonishing average of 1.848 million barrels of oil a day to the United States

Posted: May 7, 2008
Brent Patterson, May 07, 2008, The Windsor Star -- In 2006, the Security and Prosperity Partnership...Read More

Public probe of oilsands bird deaths demanded; Scrutinize government's role, says Greenpeace

Posted: May 7, 2008
Jeremy Loome, May 6, 2008, Edmonton Sun -- The environmental group Greenpeace is calling for an...Read More

Oil Sands changing the face of Canada

Posted: May 7, 2008
Marilyn Scales & Jane Werniuk, April 2008, Canadian Mining Journal -- For decades people from the...Read More

Fort Chip chiefs alarmed by duck deaths; Previous fears about affect of oilsands on traditional land now confirmed, they say

Posted: May 5, 2008
Carol Christian, May 2, 2008, Fort McMurray Today -- Three of the five ducks rescued Monday from an...Read More

Ducks the new symbol of oilsands activism; Environmentalists expected to seize on Syncrude disaster as gov't tries to downplay i

Posted: May 5, 2008
Jason Markusoff, May 4, 2008, The Edmonton Journal -- While the Alberta government and the...Read More