Tar Sands-Free: Washing our hands of dirty oil
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- What are Tar Sands?
- The Beaver Lake tar sands solidarity exchange
- Help us take action on tar sands!
- Dirty Oil Film Premiere - free tickets for P&P groups
- Stop the Tar Sands Day, June 18
- Tar Sands-Free Campaign Action Packs
- LSE promotes tar sands propagandist as 'educational'
Campaign Action Packs
If you want to kick-off the campaign, you can download a campaign action pack to start raising awareness of the issues and putting pressure on your student union and administration to do the right thing and go Tar Sands-Free!
The Alberta tar sands are the most destructive industrial project on the planet
Producing 3-5 times the carbon emissions associated with crude oil production, the industry is almost singlehandedly putting humanity on a collision course with runaway climate change – the point where damage becomes irreversible. Beyond this, the industry is killing wildlife, destroying boreal forest and increasing cancer rates in the indigenous communities who have always lived in the area.
But far from banning the toxic fuel, the Canadian government is lobbying (with the support of the UK government) to export tar sands into America and Europe. Not only that, but some of the UK’s biggest banks and oil companies are active in the industry, including publicly-owned RBS, BP and Shell, who have thrown their weight behind the Canadian and UK governments’ lobbying.
Tar Sands-Free
People & Planet are launching ‘Tar Sands-Free’, a campaign to get UK universities, schools and colleges to cut ties with companies that are supporting this disastrous industry, and you can get involved!
- Does your school, university or college bank with RBS (or subsidiary, NatWest)?
- Do they receive sponsorship money from BP or Shell?
- Do they invest students’ money in any of the above companies?
If so, it’s up to you and your fellow students to get them to go ‘Tar Sands-Free’!
Want a Tar Sands-Free speaker at your film night?
A group of People & Planet activists (including award-winning campaigner, Lauren King!) spent a summer with the Beaver Lake Cree Nation, a community directly affected by the tar sands industry. If you’d like to have one of them speak about their experiences, at your university, school or college (possibly with a Dirty Oil or H2Oil film screening?) send us an email and we can arrange a date to make it happen!
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“Animals are dying, disappearing, and being mutated by the poisons dumped into our river systems. Once we have destroyed these fragile eco-systems we will have also destroyed our peoples and trampled our treaty rights.”
Indigenous people in Alberta
