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Artists’ group wants NAC to drop Enbridge as corporate sponsor of Prairie Scene festival
OTTAWA — Artists from Manitoba and Saskatchewan want the National Arts Centre to reconsider Enbridge’s sponsorship of an upcoming festival meant to showcase art and music from the Prairies.
Prairie Artists Against Enbridge sent an e-mail this week to the NAC protesting the company’s role as a major partner of Prairie Scene.
The festival will bring 500 artists from Manitoba and Saskatchewan, representing all disciplines, to the capital for 80 events to be held over two weeks in April and May. Since 2005, the biennial Scene events have showcased emerging and established artists from different provinces or regions.... Read more »
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Oil sands cover Thornhill MP’s riding
Can you picture Thornhill, Ontario, swallowed up by Alberta’s oil sands?
Four environmental groups would like you — and Canada’s new environment minister, Peter Kent — to imagine just that by creating a new online mapping tool.
The visualization tool, similar to one created after the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, allows users to overlay an oil sands project on any chosen location in the world.
But because Mr. Kent’s home riding is Thornhill, that is the map’s default setting.
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ADVISORY: Green groups present ‘World Class’ award at Legislature following Total approval
28 January 2011 (EDMONTON)— Environmental groups will give the Alberta government a giant “world class” award tomorrow to highlight the growing chasm between what this government says and what it does.
The delivery comes one day after the provincial and federal governments approved a new open-pit tar sands mine, a move that environmental groups say shows just how deceitful government claims to improve the broken regulatory and monitoring process really are.
The approval of the mine came just minutes after the announcement of a provincial committee to provide recommendations for a “world class” monitoring system in the tar sands region. The committee has been criticized for its contingent of representatives with strong ties to the oil industry. The award will be presented to the premier on the front steps of the legislature.
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COMMENT: Sierra Club Prairie on approval of Total Joslyn Mine
Sheila Muxlow, Director with the Sierra Club Prairie had the following to say about the approval of Total's Joslyn Mine.
"Merely minutes after celebrating the creation of an oil dominated advisory panel the Provincial government fell further from their 'world class' ideals and signed off on another toxic tar sands mine under an admittedly broken system. The Joslyn North mine puts downstream communities at risk for further treaty rights violations, further health problems, and further environmental damage. It's time this government learns to subtract from their problems rather than continuing to add to them, because disappointingly the only thing 'world class' coming out of this government is deception."
For further comment call Sheila at 780-660-0312
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COMMENT: Sierra Club Prairie on Rob Renner's appointment of tar sands monitoring review committee
"It is frustrating to see the environment minister promise Albertan's a 'world class' monitoring system for future environmental stewardship and yet stack their advisory committee with the interests of big oil. Albertan's should be outraged by the appointment of Industry interests such as TransCanada Corporation, Tailsman Energy and Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers on this committee and yet once again we see the marginalization of local people and Indigenous knowledge holders. Environmental monitoring is supposed to protect the environment, not the oil companies."
For more info please contact
Dustin Johnson - 587.588.5890
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