¡Stop the Megaloads Now!

Monstrous machines over wild and scenic Idaho and Montana highways will destroy the wilderness and roads

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Tarsands
• megaloads

[jimhall2002]

I'm guessing the Oil Sands projects this film refers to are too far north to be seen in this satelite photo. The dark spot at 4 o'clock from centre might be Great Salt Lake, if that's what we're supposed to be looking at.

[ClassWarFilms]

@jimhall2002 You're absolutely right. I finessed it. While there are satellite photos that do show the horrible Tar Sands activity, you rightly pointed out what I thought would only be analogously true. Good eye.

[sirolo1]

The Tar Sands make me feel ashamed to be Canadian.

[MrTunzofunz]

BEING THE GREAT GRAND SON OF WILLIAM CLARK OF THE LOUIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION WE AMERICANS NEED TO WAKE UP AND VOTE OUT THIS PEOPLE WHO ARE SELLING OUT OUR LAND.. MY GREAT GRAND FATHER HAD MAP OUT FOR US...SHAME ON YOU WHO ARE NOT AWAKE TO YOUR SURROUNDINGS THAT WE THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SOLD INTO A NEW FORM OF SLAVERY OF THE ECONOMIC SLAVE OF THE DOLLAR.

[4snookom]

TY for sharing THIS info....

[Cyallaire]

@vendurra I have been saying that for 30 years. Incredibly, as you no doubt already know, capitalism rests on that impossibility. I agree with you on Santorum and religion's malignant influence, too.

[StopFundingIsrael]

Incredible video !!  Save the earth.- Fuck the Corporations.

[simontimon2]

@Cyallaire Have you ever f*cking lived in Fort Mac?

You know nothing about the people there, the tars sands are largest employer of first nations,

[vendurra]

@Cyallaire Santorum's Christian policy is as backward as Sharia Law. No to Santorum, no to Sharia Law. Put an end to religion's influence in law & government.

[vendurra]

The tar sands project is the last gasp of desperation before the deep plunge of industrial civilization.

Peak Oil 2012, you can't have infinite growth on a finite plane.

[alco424]

@Cyallaire All native bands get government transfer payments, it's bascially a welfare payment that is made to the band instead of individuals, so the band can use it to support their members and provide them with housing and the basic necessities.

The native bands that are affected by the oilsands are quite wealthy, and most certainly do share in the money from this bonanza as you call it. Don't believe everything you hear on the radio, or see on tv.

[alco424]

@Cyallaire I know it's not just women. The native families you heard about are from a reserve half way across the country. They have nothing to do with the oil sands in any way, so why should they get a share of the money generated by them?

The native band you heard about are the ones who got the 90 million in government transfer payments over the past few years, but have pissed it away instead of using it to support themselves like the payments are intended for.

[Cyallaire]

@alco424 It's not just native women, it's whole families left in extreme poverty without heating, as reported recently on a radio broadcast, and these natives aren't getting ANY of the money from the sale of this tar sand bonanza. I was responding to someone else's post regarding oil purchases as "voting" to suppress women's rights.

Who got $90? Was that restitution to those who were brutalized when forcibly removed from their families to be raised in gov't schools? Are you a shill?

[Cyallaire]

@oikosecosnomikos I've been boycotting Exxon since their monstrous Valdez spill. I bought a hybrid to reduce fuel consumption. I make some effort to address the problems, and extracting tar sands and burning that fuel creates a horror story. Renewable energy is what's needed along with conservation.