Military Links
The U.S. Department of Defense is the world’s leading consumer of petroleum, sucking up about 340,000 barrels of oil every day, more than the total national consumption of Sweden or Switzerland. The Alberta tar sands are the centerpiece of an energy corridor for exports to the U.S. which is increasingly geared to fuel America’s military machine.
The U.S. military economy, which has been largely rebuilt and re-invigorated since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the ongoing war on terrorism, and the invasion of Iraq, has substantially increased U.S. demands for imported oil.
The Pentagon is the single largest institutional buyer of oil in the world, consuming an estimated 85 percent of the U.S. Government’s use of oil. Canadian oil exports, which are now the U.S.’s number one source of imported oil, have become a major contributor in fuelling the U.S. war machine.
If we do not support US military terror around the world, we cannot support destroying our own environment in Northern Alberta to export oil to the US and Pentagon.
