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Audio: The struggle against tar sands extraction in Alberta
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Monday November 16, 2009 10:23 by Andrew andrewnflood at gmail dot com
As conventional sources of oil become rarer the energy corporations have started the mass extraction of oil from the tar sands of Alberta. This is a filthy process that involves vast open cast mines, tailing ponds that can be seen from space and the use of huge quantities of water and energy making it a major cause of climate change. On Saturday Heather Milton Lightening of the Indigenous Environmental Network spoke to a national Shell to Sea meeting in Dublin about this struggle (last night she spoke in Inver, Erris). This is a 50 minute recording of that talk and the discussions that followed it. These are some of the areas the talk covers
Heather Milton Lightening on tar sands extraction Heather Milton Lightening on tar sands extraction 22.09 Mb |