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Truth, Trials and Tar Sands: The Beaver Lake Cree Nation Battle Big Oil to Save the Boreal

Chief Al Lameman of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation and Jack Woodward, pre-eminent authority on Aboriginal law in Canada, speak to a full house on Salt Spring Island about the need to tackle the tar sands if we are going to really be effective in the fight against climate change.

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RBC Tar Sands “Flame Trail” Commercial

By: Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network added a voiceover to Royal Bank of Canada's new "Flame Trail" Olympics commercial. Since 2007, Royal Bank of Canada has backed more than $16.9 billion (USD) in loans to companies operating in the Alberta tar sands—more than any other bank.

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Royal Bank of Canada Awarded Most Environmentally Irresponsible Company

By: Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network highlights the Royal Bank of Canada's complicity in, and refusal to face, the destruction association with tar sands development. TheTarSandsBlow.org

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This Hour Has 22 Minutes: Oil Sands

By: This Hour Has 22 Minutes

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Canada’s Dirty Oil: Breaking Our Addiction

With astonishing and disturbing new aerial footage from the tar sands region of Alberta, the new DVD Canada’s Dirty Oil: Breaking Our Addiction makes the case that the oil sands are a dirty, dangerous and expensive threat to America’s emerging new energy economy.

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Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands and the UK Climate Camp

Clayton Thomas-Muller, Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network reports on the impact of Aboriginal participation at the UK Climate Camp, August 2009.

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Ducks on Syncrude’s toxics tailings pond

By: Fish and Wildlife Division of Sustainable Resource Development | Todd Powell

Raw video of ducks injured at Syncrude's 12km sq. Aurora tailings pond.

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News

Editorial- Court delays threaten refinery project

August 31, 2010 (Billings Gazette )

Dump spotty water-monitoring regime

August 31, 2010 (Edmonton Journal | Graham Thomson)

Oil sands polluting Alberta river system, study finds

August 30, 2010 (Reuters | Jeffrey Jones)

Editorial: Oil, gas pipelines inspections should be more transparent

August 30, 2010 (The Grand Rapids Press Editorial Board | Editorial )