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Die-in and protest at the Royal Bank of Canada RBC Centre Branch in London, Ontario, Canada.
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The Tar Sands "Gigaproject" is the largest industrial project in human history and likely also the most destructive. The tar sands mining procedure releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as regular oil production and is slated to become the single largest industrial contributor in North America to Climate Change.
The tar sands are already slated to be the cause of up to the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet behind the Amazon Rainforest Basin. Currently approved projects will see 3 million barrels of tar sands mock crude produced daily by 2018; for each barrel of oil up to as high as five barrels of water are used.
Since 2007 RBC Royal Bank Canada - has backed more than $16.9 billion (USD) in loans to companies operating in the tar sands—more than any other bank. Expansion of the tar sands is trampling the rights of Indigenous peoples, destroying globally significant ecosystems and significantly increasing Canadas carbon emissions.
Human health in many communities has seriously taken a turn for the worse with many causes alleged to be from tar sands production. Tar sands production has led to many serious social issues throughout Alberta, from housing crises to the vast expansion of temporary foreign worker programs that racialize and exploit so-called non-citizens. Infrastructure from pipelines to refineries to super tanker oil traffic on the seas crosses the continent in all directions to all three major oceans and the Gulf of Mexico.
The mock oil produced primarily is consumed in the United States and helps to subsidize continued wars of aggression against other oil producing nations such as Iraq, Venezuela and Iran.
Royal Bank of Canada
The Royal Bank of Canada (Banque Royale du Canada in French) is Canada's largest company.[1] It has over 1,400 branches across Canada, over 70,000 full-and part-time employees worldwide, and offices in over 34 countries.
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Number of employees worldwide: 60,858
Chief executive officer: Gordon Nixon
Website: http://www.rbc.com/
Global Fortune 500 rank: 211
Total revenue: 20.6 billion
Find out more and take action:
http://oilsandstruth.org/
http://www.ienearth.org/nativeenergy....
http://ran.org/campaigns/freedom_from...
http://climatefriendlybanking.org/
http://www.corpwatch.org
Our objective is to save humanity and not just half of humanity. We are here to save mother earth. Our objective is to reduce climate change to [under] 1°C. [above this] many islands will disappear and Africa will suffer a holocaust. The real cause of climate change is the capitalist system. If we want to save the earth then we must end that economic model. Capitalism wants to address climate change with carbon markets. We denounce those markets and the countries which [promote them]. It's time to stop making money from the disgrace that they have perpetrated."
- Evo Morales, December 16th, 2010, Copenhagen Climate Summit
Organizations; Please consider endorsing the POSTCOP15 | TIME TO BE BOLD DECLARATION.
POST COP15 | TIME TO BE BOLD | NO MORE COMPROMISE: http://timetobebold.wordpress.com/
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