Posts Tagged ‘delegates’
Ghost Forest: Trafalgar Square au natural
Angela Palmer‘s ecological art is a wake-up call for those still absent from the Climate Change argument
Written by Valerie Pezeron
Yesterday a group of activists joined representatives from Canada’s First Nation communities to protest against RBS’s continued funding into Tar Sands.
Tar sands is a particularly oily soil which is extracted by using huge open pit mining, price leaving huge 75 meter scars in the wake or by ‘In Situ mining’ which requires huge amounts of natural gas to operate.
Tar Sands extraction is also the dirtiest forms of oil, sildenafil producing 3 to 5 times as much Co2 per barrel as conventional oil, ambulance which shows a desperate attempt by corporations and governments to profit from oil no matter the cost to the environment.
These ‘oil sands’ are found predominately in Canada, which means the US can look to have less reliance… read more
