Ed Stelmach alberta WE MUST ALL -- ACT -- NOW.
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Ed Stelmach alberta WE MUST ALL -- ACT -- NOW.
http://www.youtube.com/Albertans4Change On Tuesday, September 25th, shortly after the Premier of Alberta, Ed Stelmach, began his "Alberta: Canada's engine of growth" luncheon speech at the Sheraton Centre in downtown Toronto, a suited ecoSanity.org volunteer rose in protest with a cloth banner that read GET SANE in bold, black letters on white and repeated the following statement until he was willingly removed: "Mr Stelmach, right now, the people of the most impoverished nations are suffering and dying because of environmentally negligent ventures like the Alberta tar sands. Canadians and the world need a clean, sustainable energy economy, not a pillaging, murderous one. Stop sacrificing my generation. Renewable energy now. Deadly tar sands NEVER!" Canadians who seek to save their country, must therefore seek to cancel NAFTA, as the legal basis for the greed-driven and fear associated pursuit of the destruction of Canada, under the pretext of the "War of Terrorism". A Case for Repealing NAFTA and Blocking the NAU. Canada-( http://youtube.com/watch?v=O7ZDNHf30pI ) America-( http://youtube.com/watch?v=_qfmLbn-Kh0 ) Mexico-( http://youtube.com/watch?v=QOztn8tHTdc ) All Reject NAFTA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNLnBnTuxvU ANTIWAR AND SOCIAL JUSTICE The tar sands are located under untouched boreal forest that covers nearly 1/4 of Alberta. Trees are cut down, the surface is strip-mined and the underlying mixture is heated with steam to make it flow. Oil from the tar sands produces 5 x more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil and is the fastest growing greenhouse gas emitter in Canada (Alberta emits 40% of our nation's total, but with only 10% of our population) Huge amounts of water and dirty energy are required to create the steam needed to extract the oil The surrounding air and water is polluted with a variety of toxic chemicals 70% of the crude oil is exported to the U.S. ECOSANITY.ORG'S DEMANDS OF PREMIER, ED STELMACH, AND THE GOV'T OF ALBERTA: We could propose things like: an immediate moratorium on new tar sands projects; cap air emissions from new upgraders; restrict water usage; level, then reverse, runaway development and initiate aggressive government regulation, but the reality is: "At present, the planet's atmosphere is on course to heat up to unsurvivable temperatures within the lifetimes of today's children" (Glenn MacIntosh, "Founder's Imperative", www.ecoSanity.org). Alberta tar sands development and humanity cannot co-exist because tar sands development KILLS. The planet won't wait for us to save it, ourselves or those we love. WE MUST ALL -- ACT -- NOW.
YouTube | February 5, 2008
