This video is called Birds and Canada’s Tar Sands: Why America’s Number 1 Source of Oil is Removing Millions of Birds.
From BirdLife:
Danger in the NurseryAlberta tar sands get the cinematic treatment deserving of a nasty, nasty industry: here.18-01-2009
Strip-mining for tar sands, a source of low-grade oil, is damaging forest and wetland habitats in Canada’s boreal forest. A report, Danger in the Nursery, from the Boreal Songbird Initiative, Natural Resources Defense Council and Pembina Institute, warns that over the next 30 to 50 years up to 300,000 hectares of forest and wetland could be directly affected, while habitat fragmentation, pollution and hydrological changes would affect a much larger area.
The report says that almost all the world’s biggest oil companies are involved in tar sands extraction in an area of north eastern Alberta which supports at least 292 species of breeding birds.
Among globally threatened species are Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus and Sprague’s Pipit Anthus spragueii (both Vulnerable), and Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi (Near Threatened). The only wild, migratory population of Whooping Crane Grus americana (Endangered) nests at Wood Buffalo National Park to the north, and migrates over the tar sands region, occasionally stopping over at boreal wetlands.
Many of the most abundant songbirds and waterbirds of the Americas also breed in the “bird nursery” of the boreal forest, and are already suffering declines because of logging, and degradation of their migration staging sites.
Norwegians join push to ban oil exploration from fragile Arctic coasts: here.
The world’s last remaining “pristine” forest – the boreal forest across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries – is under increasing threat, a team of international researchers has found: here.
Oil sands pollution in Canada worse than industry and government claim, by Jeremy Hance: here.
ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
Urge President Obama to Say No to Filthy Canadian Tar Sands
By Ecological Internet’s Climate Ark & Forests.org projects
http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/
February 5, 2009
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=obama_tar_sands
Canadian government wants special treatment for the
world’s dirtiest oil. In first overseas trip, President
Obama must stand strong on clean energy and sufficient
climate policies.
BRIEF BACKGROUND:
On February 19, President Obama travels to Canada on his
first presidential visit abroad, where he will face
pressure from the Government of Canada to support
production of Alberta tar sands oil. Called oil sands by
proponents, tar sands are the very dirtiest of fossil
fuels. Producing oil from tar sands emits three times the
global warming pollution as conventional oil, requires
excessive amounts of energy and fresh water, and destroys
huge swaths of ancient boreal forest.
President Barack Obama must be strongly encouraged to
stand strong on his new energy economy agenda and
commitment to urgently address climate change, and reject
entreaties from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to
shelter the dirtiest oil on Earth from global warming
regulation. Let the President know how seriously you take
climate change, urging him to reject tar sands and
support further immediate urgent action in pursuit of
sufficient climate change policies.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=obama_tar_sands
DISCUSS THIS ALERT:
http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/02/alert-urge-president-obama-to.asp
Comment by Administrator — February 25, 2009 @ 5:42 pm
ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
Hillary’s Choice: Urge Secretary of State Clinton to Reject Deadly Tar Sands Oil Pipelines
By Ecological Internet’s Climate Ark Climate Change Portal
http://www.climateark.org/
July 29, 2009
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=canada_tar_sands
Alberta Canada’s tar sands development is the most ecologically destructive project in the world; destroying vast natural water rich boreal ecosystems, perpetuating global addiction to fossil fuels, and ensuring abrupt climate change. Tar sands and their pipelines must be stopped using all means necessary. Please start by protesting for disapproval of massive pipelines which will facilitate continued fossil fuel dependency,
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=canada_tar_sands
DISCUSS THIS ALERT:
http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/07/alert-hillarys-choice-urge-sec.asp
Comment by Administrator — July 31, 2009 @ 8:12 pm