Help us prevent Climate Crisis in Alberta Canada - Take action to keep BP out of the tar sands

THE WORLD IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF CLIMATE CRISIS. But attempts to avert it are being threatened by a massive industry in the Canadian wilderness.

Tar Sands development is turning once-pristine stretches of ancient forest into desolate, post-apocalyptic landscapes and producing toxic pollution that is harming the health and quality of life of the regions Indigenous First Nations communities.

Until recently, BP was the only major oil company not to be in the Tar Sands. But all this has changed. The company, which used to boast that it was Beyond Petroleum, has decided it wants a piece of the dirty oil action. Only a powerful popular campaign can stop it now!

Take action to keep BP out of the tar sands the single most destructive project on earth.The BP Fortnight of Shame is a call to action from the UK Tar Sands Network, Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action to force BP to reverse their crazy plans to move into Canadas tar sands.

WHAT ARE THE TAR SANDS?

Tar Sands are basically oily soil. They are sticky deposits of bitumen mixed with sand and clay, which require enormous quantities of energy and water, and several stages of industrial processing, to extract and turn into useable crude oil.
proven world reserves

Proven World Reserves of Oil

Canadas Tar Sands are the biggest energy project in the world, currently producing 1.3 million barrels of oil a day.

Largely located in Alberta, the Tar Sands deposits are distributed over an area of 140,000 km2 an area larger than England.
Canada has the second largest oil reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia.

Canada is the biggest supplier of oil to the US, the worlds largest oil consumer.

Tar Sands are the most energy and resource intensive fossil fuel in commercial production:

The extraction process emits three to five times more CO2 per barrel than conventional oil.

Enough natural gas is used in the Tar Sands every day to heat 3.2 million Canadian homes for 24 hours.

The development will be using enough gas to heat all 11.5 million Canadian homes by 2012.

Giant toxic tailings ponds of waste produced by some of the projects cover 130 km2.

http://www.no-tar-sands.org/

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• Tar Sands
• BP
• Shell
• Barclays
• HSBC
• Destruction
• Environmental Pollution
• Land Rights
• Ecological Disaster
• Canada
• Boreal Forest
• Ecocide
• Week of Shame
• RBS
• Blood Oil

[youandifilms]

@morganic88 Equally corporations have the resources to make amends and restore their distructive actions and example is the Loess Plateau in one of Chinas provences which is a fantastic example of desolation transformed.

The Loess Plateau has been transformed over 8 years and cost the same as the production budget for Avatar, about $500 Million demonstrating the restorative process.

[LiveCaster]

@rider4343 cause the polar ice caps melting wont cause floods at all

[LiveCaster]

if the major corps are out of the oil sands we'll get into deeper shit in our economic crisis.

[HugNow]

good video however I think people need to provide actual alternatives to oil, and I think star power on earth is the future.

[morganic88]

Great video, well done on making a very informative doc. I found the writing faded out a bit fast and i had to pause it to read it, but maybee thats just my Sake addled mind. Thankyou for making this, and GOOD LUCK TO GAIA with surviving 'the attack of the humans'...