From macdonald at oilsandstruth.org  Tue Feb 19 17:19:42 2008
From: macdonald at oilsandstruth.org (Macdonald Stainsby, OST.)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:19:42 -0700
Subject: [Ost-announce] Justice for Fort Chipewyan
Message-ID: <47BB802E.4070302@oilsandstruth.org>

*Demand Justice for Fort Chipewyan!!!*
Rally at the Legislature
March 1st, 1:00 pm

*Join with members of Fort Chipewyan to demand justice for their community.*

Increasing numbers of the small aboriginal community of Fort Chipewyan
(downstream from the Alberta Tar Sands) are being diagnosed and dying from
rare cancers and other auto-immune diseases. A recent water study confirmed
that the water in Fort Chipewyan had increased levels of arsenic, mercury
and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and was not safe for
consumption, particularly in the fish eaten by local residents.

The study further supports the Mikisew Cree's recent call for a moratorium
on tar sands development.

But as stated by Councillor Russell Kaskamin of the Mikisew Cree First
Nation, "The Federal and Provincial governments are continuing to issue
approvals for projects despite all of the uncertainties with the true
environmental effects of oilsands development. This analysis suggests that
we can no longer continue to exercise our rights to harvest foods due to the
uncertainty of potential health risks."
It is time to demand justice for the Mikisew Cree and the residents of Fort
Chipewyan.

*MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!!!*
*March 1st, 1:00 pm*
*Alberta Legislature*

Contact: George Poitras at george.poitras at shawbiz.ca, Lindsey Telfer at
Lindsay at sierraclub.org or Mike at mhudema at greenpeace.org for more
information.



From macdonald at oilsandstruth.org  Thu Feb 21 13:26:48 2008
From: macdonald at oilsandstruth.org (Macdonald Stainsby, OST.)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:26:48 -0700
Subject: [Ost-announce] Canada's Deadly Secret: Uranium,
	the Global Nuclear System and Alberta
Message-ID: <47BDEC98.9080504@oilsandstruth.org>

1. "Canada's Deadly Secret: Uranium, the Global Nuclear System and 
Alberta"- Presentation by Dr. Jim Harding

When: Friday, Feb 29th at 7pm
Where: Stanley Milner Public Library (Downtown), Edmonton Room
Address: 100street and 102nd Avenue (Winston Churchill Square)

Author Dr. Jim Harding reveals the impact of uranium mining and nuclear 
power on everything from public health, tar sands extraction,  to 
nuclear weapons. Addressing aboriginal rights, the environment, the 
epidemic of cancer, and international nuclear industry, he presents an 
alternative vision linking energy, health, and sovereignty to a 
sustainable and peaceful future.

Dr.Harding's new book, Canada's Deadly Secret,  chronicles the struggle 
over Saskatchewan's uranium mining, the front end of the global nuclear 
system. It demonstrates the negative impacts on Aboriginal rights and 
environmental health, and the effect of free trade, in tracing 
Saskatchewan's pivotal role in nuclear proliferation with its spread of 
contamination and cancer. Jim Harding shows that nuclear energy cannot 
address global warming; nor is there a "peaceful atom." The book goes 
inside biased public inquiries, exposing PR campaigns of half-truths and 
untruths, and indicts the penetration of nuclear propaganda into our 
schools. Canada's Deadly Secret also highlights successes in holding 
back nuclear expansion. It presents an alternative, ecological vision 
for a sustainable future that not only takes up the invitation coming 
from renewable energies, but also links energy, environment, health, 
peace and sovereignty.

Jim Harding is a retired professor of environmental and justice studies. 
He is a founding member of the Regina Group for a Non-Nuclear Society 
and International Uranium Congress, and was director of research for 
Prairie Justice Research at the University of Regina where he headed up 
the Uranium Inquiries Project. Jim also acted as Prairie Correspondent 
for Nuclear Free Press and consultant for the National Film Board 
award-winning film Uranium.

His new book "Canada's Deadly Secret" will be available.

Free Admission - please pass this on!

This Event is sponsored by:
Sierra Club of Canada - Prairie Chapter
Council of Canadians
KAIROS - Edmonton Committee

For more information, or questions about the presentation, please 
contact Leila Darwish at 780-439-1160, or at leila at sierraclub.ca