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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 by Charles Campbell

Tar Sands - The Dark Side of the Boom

Tar Sands - The Dark Side of the Boom

BC and the Alberta Tar Sands

Province wide speaking tour on the effects of unfettered growth of the Alberta Tar Sands on British Columbia.

Kitimat - Nov. 24Vancouver - Nov. 25, Kamloops - Nov. 27, Courtenay - Dec. 1, Nanaimo - Dec. 2, Victoria - Dec 3.

MIKE MERCREDI

Member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation will speak on the frontline struggles in Fort Chipewyan including a plague of tar sands related cancer.

JESSIE KALMAN
Tar Sands Campaigner with the Polaris Institute will speak on the social & environmental impacts of the tar sands.

Please join us for this very important panel on the largest industrial project in history.

This tour is being organized, endorsed and supported by the Council of Canadians,  the Polaris Institute, Canadian Union of Public Employees BC, the Sierra Club, the Dogwood Initiative, Greenpeace, Check-Your Head, Institute for Citizen Journalism, Tar Sands Free BC, North Coast Enviro Watch and Western  Canada Wilderness Committee.

For More Info:
email: hgrewal@canadians.org or call: 604 688 8846

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