Yesterday's fantastic direct action at Suncor's tar sands complex in Alberta is over. Two giant conveyor belts were blockaded for 10 hours and a giant banner was floated on the nearby Athabasca river. You can still catch some of the footage from the live video feeds and there are some great images in the slideshow above.
As Laura noted on Making Waves:
The tar sands are a perfect example of what lack of leadership on
climate change and unchecked greenhouse gas emissions produces – a
toxic disaster zone that is leaching 11 million litres of toxins into
the groundwater and pumping out 100 million tonnes of carbon into the air
per day about 67 million tonnes of CO2e a year by 2010. This is why Greenpeace activists are taking action today.
[Update: We had some sort of statistics meltdown, but it should be all fixed now...]
And remember the previous Greenpeace action at Shell's tar sands site a couple of weeks ago? Here are some of those involved explaining why they took part.
