No New Approvals for Tar Sands Developments
We are calling, with one voice, for the Alberta Government to take the first step for a cessation of new oil sands approvals and lease sales. The time is now to stop the uncontrolled oil sands development and deal with the environmental and social concerns that it has created.
Regardless of the reason, there is one thing we all agree on - the first step is to stop adding to the problem.No new approvals on oil sands development!
We are calling, with one voice, for the Alberta Government to take the first step for a cessation of new oil sands approvals and lease sales. The time is now to stop the uncontrolled oil sands development and deal with the environmental and social concerns that it has created.
Regardless of the reason, there is one thing we all agree on - the first step is to stop adding to the problem.No new approvals on oil sands development!
We, the undersigned, represent diverse interests and individual priorities to our concern about the future of Alberta. We represent {environmental, social, conservation, labour, health, treaty rights, forestry, land use, humanitarian, water and economic concerns}; but we are united in our concern about the impact that out-of-control development of the oil sands is having on all areas of the province.
We are calling, with one voice, for the Alberta Government to take the first step for a cessation of new oil sands approvals and lease sales. The time is now to stop the uncontrolled oil sands development and deal with the environmental and social concerns that it has created.
Regardless of the reason, there is one thing we all agree on - the first step is to stop adding to the problem.No new approvals on oil sands development!
Please reconsider this project. It is totally unsustainable
The tar sands project is a crime against humanity.
Please consider our collective future.We have very little time left to change. The tar sands project is not sustainable. It is a crime against humanity.
We need to think of our children's future
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1:49 pm PDT, Jun 26,
Natalie Van Leekwijck, Belgium
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Please don't destroy Canada's precious forests and all their resident birds (which migrate all over the Americas) and wildlife, for `dirty' fossil fuels which will just cause ever more damage to our atmosphere and planet. Oil sands development is short-sighted and ruinous, think of the future generations.
oil sand expoiltation is more ugly than extraction of oil!
The tarsands project needs to end now before our lives as we know it, are ended. The destruction of forest, wildlife, enviroment and the rapidly increasing rate of terminal illness is apalling.
Better solutions are available. Stop destroying our planet.
the athabascan river and its basin will be completely destoyed by this developement and promises of recovery at the end of mining are an outright lie as at this time the possibiliy of reclammation is unknown & even if it proved to be possible where is the money to pay for it? at this point I would say it doesnt and wont exist as history has proven.
There are more important things that we could be using water for than extracting and processing low quality oil. I am against the tar sands development.
Personally it disgusts me that people would destroy forests and land in general to get to oil.. Honestly we are going to run out eventually and when that happens TOO BAD find something that is more environmentally friendly or go without.
There absolutely should be no new approvals to tar sands development. In fact, there should be no tar sands industry. Let's find alternative ways to fuel our homes and automobiles. Let's reduce our use and alter our consumption first, environment second attitudes. Take the bus, carpool, walk, bike and show Canada we don't need the tar sands! Take a stand and don't assume you will get another chance to 'safe the earth.' Literally!
We need to start getting serious about respecting the environment. The tar sands are incredibly harmful from an ecological perspective.
We need to stop further expansion of the tar sands,stop govt. subsidies to the oil industry,give the National Energy Board control of all Canadian energy,renegotiate NAFTA and put $ billions into research on alternate energy. Generations to come will curse the names of those who became wealthy at the expence of the biosphere
Several barrels of water to 1 barrel of oil from the tar sands. 3 times the Co2 emission as regular oil production. Millions of dollars in tax payers money subsidy. I have friends that were never environmental who now work in Fort MacMurry. They are sick at the destruction. The quote I have heard more than once is "We can never fix this." The land and water are ruined.
I want a government that respects our planet, our health, the environments health. Once we have contaminated our air, water and soil we face extinction. Why? So a select few can become very rich; and the USA can rape our country at discount prices. NO! No new development. These resources, this land and this country belong to Canadians. It is time for sustainability. Not large corporate ventures. It is time to listen to what Canadian's want.
Everything I have read about the development of the oilsands indicates that the human and environmental costs are far too high. I think it is time that the government put its time, effort and money into developing sustainable sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts on people and the environment.
The use of water and energy resources required to extract the oil is excessive. I understand that the major push for the development of nuclear power plants in Alberta is for the purpose of extracting oil from the tar sands. I support a nuclear free Alberta. In short, I believe the time has run out for governement to support development at whatever the cost. Short term economic relief will not compensate for the damage that is done to the health of people and the environment. I want a government that accepts responsibility for all its citizens.....and for the well-being of the grandchildren who will bear the consequences of its actions.
Health over money.
Green technology and renewable energy are available, let's end our addiction to oil.
The tar sands are Canada's shame
Stop raping our beautiful country, and destroying our beautiful planet.
I am apalled by the destruction happening in my own backyard and the health issues of those living in the area. It is time for the government to stop hiding this atrocity from Canadians and to stop development of the oil sands before it is too late!
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The current rate of development is unsustainable.....for human life in general. the Boreal forest is a major carbon sink.........as is the perma frost of our north. Threatening these natural absorbers of the worst pollutants of fossil fuel use makes no long term sense. Furthermore, the proflicate wasting of our water supplies, and large scale contamination of what remains after we jetison water into the deep earth to melt bitumen...constitutes a crime against humanity. No new approvals;;;NOW.
As stated above....land degradation, large scale contribution to global warming, waste and contamination of water........for the benefits of the American military industrial complex........which really needs to get its own act together. Getting off a dependence on oil, means just that.......not becoming indepedent because your neighbours are selling their citizen's birthright to American oil companies....and spinning what it means to be green!....so that the rhetoric of oil independence is just rhetoric. Canada too....needs to invest in sustainables........and do some deep thinking about how we can stop polluting and start living sustainably. The economy and the environment should not be separate concerns. It is the essence of bad economics to devestate the planet on which we all live. More and more Canadians know the truth of what is happening in our north. No new approvals: NOW
For more impact, add a personal comment here Our environment is crucial to the future of life on this planet. The oil sands developments are extremely destructive to the area around them and to the plants and animals that inhabit that area.
What is your reason for wanting no new approvals on oil/tar sands development? There is too much of this destructive activity already. We MUST find alternative sources of power.
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