tar sands

The moment has come for BP to move beyond oil. Under Tony Hayward the company went backwards, squeezing the last drops of oil from places like the Gulf of Mexico, the tar sands of Canada and even the fragile Arctic wilderness. Greenpeace is urging new head Bob Dudley to demonstrate early leadership by announcing that BP will pull out of a trio of planned tar sands projects in Alberta which are due to be developed next year, and massively scale up the company's investment in alternative energy. http://www.greenpeace.org.uk

When: Saturday, 15th May Meet: 1PM at Oxford Circus Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes Oxford Circus meeting point map: http://tinyurl.com/OCnw-SVmap Shutting down a petrol station for 5 hours on a sunny Saturday afternoon was so much fun were going to do it again. Shells Hell in the tar sands and beyond - is next in the firing line. Party 1 had Samba, twin sound systems, a live Ceilidh band, face-painting, free cakes and 200 people. Party 2 will be bigger and better, with activists joining us from Brighton, Oxford and beyond.

BP is about to join the scramble for the tar sands. 'Beyond petroleum' has become 'back to black' as BP's plunge into the most destructive extraction project on Earth makes a mockery of its own PR greenwash. On Fossil Fools day, 2010, London Rising Tide and the London Tar Sands Network decided to help BP with a rebranding strategy to reflect their renewed commitment to environmental devastation and catastrophic climate change.

The London Tar Sands Network and London Rising Tide hold the inaugural Tar Sands Oilympics in Trafalgar Square, London. Corporate contenders RBS, Shell and newcomer BP compete for the chance to wreak environmental havoc in their scramble for Canada's tar sands. In the process they will lay waste to vast areas of boreal forest, poison First Nations communities and push the planet towards catastrophic climate change. The race for the most polluting fossil fuel resource on the planet is on. Forget the Winter Olympics in Canada, the real competition for the future of the planet is here.

During the UN Climate Conference in December 2009 a demonstration was held outside the Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen to protest against the environmental devastation of the tar sands (oil sands) mining operations in in Alberta. Naomi Klein and others give speeches about the impact of tar sands on the climate and First Nations communities in Canada.

During the UN Climate Conference in December 2009 a demonstration was held outside the Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen to protest against the environmental devastation of the tar sands (oil sands) mining operations in in Alberta. Naomi Klein and others give speeches about the impact of tar sands on the climate and First Nations communities in Canada.

video directed by Sara Taigher. Medley of songs from DJ Rupture & Matt Shadetek
December, 23 2009
By Bond, Patrick
In Copenhagen, the world’s richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, ignoring requests of global village neighbors to please chill out.
Instead of halting the hedonism, Barack Obama and the Euro elites cracked open the [...]