Stupid to the Last Drop

Ottawa

Wed December 31 8:00pm

Speakers:

William Marsden, investigative journalist and author of Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care)

Clayton Thomas-Müller, indigenous oil campaign organizer for The Indigenous Environmental Network.

Trevor Haché of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (CYCC)

Jessie Kalman of the Polaris Institute, campaigner for a moratorium on further developments, and working towards an eventual shutdown of all tar sands mega projects.

There will also be a screening of video from the VBS.tv series
TOXIC-Alberta

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The Alberta Tar Sands may be the largest known hydrocarbon deposit yet discovered on this planet. It contains between 175 and 200 billion barrels of proven oil reserves using existing technologies alone, another 2.5 trillion as technological advances occur. The Alberta tar sands are poised to become the crown jewel and centerpiece of a new continental energy corridor for the U.S. Canada has surpassed Saudi Arabia as the number one exporter of oil to the United States. As well, Canada is seen as a much more stable and reliable supplier of oil than the Middle East and Venezuela, the traditional sources for U.S. imports. And now, behind the scenes plans are underway to rapidly expand Alberta’s tar sands exports over the next few years. In January 2006, at a two-day summit organized by Natural Resources Canada and the U.S. Department of Energy in Houston, Texas, leading industry and government officials from both countries pledged to rapidly increase tar sands production from one million to five million barrels of oil per day.