[Ost-announce] Justice for Fort Chipewyan

[Macdonald Stainsby, OST.]

*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.