Alberta Oil Industry Destroying World's Largest Biome
These projects are destroying a southern edge of the world's largest biome, the taiga, a forest stretching across Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway, Siberia, Northern Minnesota, Upstate New York, New Hampshire, Maine, northern Kazakhstan and Japan.
It is doing this at an accelerating rate.
Consider that Alberta alone accounts for approximately one-third of Canada's total emissions and Canada ranks among the top producers of emissions on the planet, placing 7th out of 207 countries for carbon dioxide emissions and 12th out of 185 countries for greenhouse gases.
Furthermore, the situation involves the Albertan and Canadian government's complete disregard of UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) rulings as well as rulings made by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Special Rapporteur for Housing concerning a land rights settlement with the northern Alberta based First Nation, the Lubicon.
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These projects are destroying a southern edge of the world's largest biome, the taiga, a forest stretching across Alaska, Canada, Sweden, Finland, inland Norway, Siberia, Northern Minnesota, Upstate New York, New Hampshire, Maine, northern Kazakhstan and Japan.
It is doing this at an accelerating rate.
Consider that Alberta alone accounts for approximately one-third of Canada's total emissions and Canada ranks among the top producers of emissions on the planet, placing 7th out of 207 countries for carbon dioxide emissions and 12th out of 185 countries for greenhouse gases.
Furthermore, the situation involves the Albertan and Canadian government's complete disregard of UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) rulings as well as rulings made by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Special Rapporteur for Housing concerning a land rights settlement with the northern Alberta based First Nation, the Lubicon.
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Dear Ed Stelmach,
We the undersigned, as planetary citizens, are calling for nothing less than the complete cessation of oil sands projects in northern Alberta, a complete restoration of the afflicted environment and an engagement with sustainable and renewable energy sources.
Ed Stelmach, you have repeatedly stated that you will %u201Cnot touch the brakes%u201D concerning the oil industry in Alberta. Let it be known that the rest of the world is in that vehicle with you and we will not join you on this suicidal path towards extinction.
Continued engagement with and promotion of these oil sands projects puts at risk the lives of over 6 billion people as well as innumerable forms of organic life and diversity. The oil sands projects are responsible for nothing less than accelerating the demise of the entire human species.
Albertan and Canadian governments have repeatedly ignored UN Human Rights Commission rulings in regards to Lubicon Traditional Territory. Not only is the oil industry in Alberta a bane to the existence of life on this planet, it is also an internationally recognized Human Rights issue.
This position and lack of action on the part of the Alberta and Canadian governments very seriously mauls the reputation of Canada as a peacekeeping nation.
Rather, it clearly shows that Albertan and Canadian governments have little respect for the planet or for the people living upon it and with it.
Shortsightedness of any degree can no longer be accepted. This is a matter of global concern far beyond the economies or energy needs of any single province or nation.
What you are doing is depriving the world of oxygen and therefore participating in a slow genocide of the entire human species and of all life on Earth.
Please, slam on the brakes. Please, ask yourself if you want to be responsible for a grey, toxic and suffocating future devoid of life or if you want to play a role in developing a green, healthy and exciting future full of life.
Join us in building a better world.
I understand you won't stop oil extraction because it is essential for the existence of the modern world but at least pay some respect to local people's and wildlife's rights to live a healthy life without being exposed to cancerogenes only because somebody very rich doesn't want to invest in safety and soil restoration.
Servitude to big money, self-interest, a growing lack of civic responsibility, and a nature-be-dammed attitude in so-called Canadian leadership makes me ashamed to be Canadian.
It is devastating to see what humans do to Nature. They seem to forget that they are a part of it.
There are ways to preserve forests without being destructive. It's more expensive, but it can be done.
Just saw a report about this in our local news. I really don't understand how can a supposedly "civilised", "developed" country such as Canada can agree with such things, and, parallely, like plenty of other civilised & developed countries, spend zillions of dollars, euros etc. to inform the masses about "global warming", "loss of biodiversity", "deforestation", "we must adapt our way of life", "we should all be responsible citizens" and blah, blah, blah, hours and hours of blah blahs which our governments are trying to wash our brain with, something which George Orwell once called "doubleplusgood duckspeak". Do you know where the source of this contradiction lies? The Earth and its numerous so-called independent, sovereign and sometimes democratic nations are not governed by their governments anymore, but by multinational trusts and companies. Maybe your already born children shall witness this when adults : there won't be any nations anymore, only commercial trusts. Our French oil company Total may then transform its name into "Total Oil Domination", we'll also have Micro$h*t-controlled internet, etc etc.
We need to find a renewable resource that is not a destructive as oil. Without the trees life does not exist on the earth, if we continue we will be sealing our own doom.
Stop the oilsands
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10:47 am PDT, Mar 25,
James Brewer, Ohio
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It makes me sick to see Albertans bragging about being the only province not in debt. It's not worth it to have money at the expense of others, especially others' futures!
We need to invest in clean alternative energy. The oil companies have become far too greedy. The big greedy oil companies only want to make more & more profit and they care nothing about the enviroment or the future of our planet.
these people are so dumb. they talk about how the world will end because of global warming and about how everyone has to help fix the "problem". there just making it worse. and whats evwen worse is that the government is supporting it? like WTF? if they wanna stnad by and watch the world and our ecosystem be destroyed go right ahead, but there im going to try and make a difference!
You Are Lame Sauce And I'm Gonna Murder Yur Fam Jam.
YOU SUCK!!!!!!!
