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Bloody Oil
Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth

Worth, Jess
http://www.newint.org/columns/currents/2009/11/01/environment/

Publisher:  New Internationalist
Date Written:  01/11/09
Year Published:  2009  
Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter

The extraction of oil from tar sands is perhaps the most ecologically insane idea on the planet. Four First Nations representatives from Canada travelled to Britain to participate in the London climate camp – the country’s biggest annual gathering of climate activists. Organized by the Indigenous Environmental Network and supported by the New Internationalist, the group’s aim was to internationalize the campaign for a complete tar sands moratorium.

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