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Take the matter into your own hands!
The tar sands are a long way away, but there are no shortage of actions you can take right now!*
- Kick off the Tar Sands-Free campaign in your college or university, by downloading a campaign action pack here
- Join or organise a public ‘tarring-and-feathering’ stunt at BP, Shell or RBS location in your area
- Talk to your MP about signing up a motion supporting UK companies being required to report on their green-house gas emissions
- Screen a documentary like Dirty Oil, or H2Oil at your university or college to raise awareness and mobilise others to take action
- Invite a tar sands speaker your event People & Planet activists who have experienced the tar sands first hand are available to come speak at events at your college or university. Send us an email if you’d like a tar sands speaker at your next event.
- Organise your own action or protest against your favourite climate criminals and tar sands investors; BP, RBS, or Shell
Whatever you choose, let us know what you’re up to and if we can help you make it happen!
Tar Sands Campaign Quick Facts
- Each barrel of oil from tar sands requires three barrels of water and emits three-to-five times the greenhouse gasses of standard crude oil
- The Alberta tar sands cover an area as big as the UK
- The tar sands projects of companies like BP, Shell and Total were awarded without consultation of local indigenous communities, whose land is being used
- The natural gas spent on tar sands extraction each day could heat 3 million Canadian homes
- 90% of the water used to extract tar sands oil creates toxic ‘tailings ponds’, the largest manmade structures on Earth, at over 50 square kilometers
- Particular cancer rates in local indigenous communities have risen to 30% higher than in the standard population, since tar sands extraction began
