Oil Sands Truth: Shut Down the Tar Sands

Social Impacts

Social Impacts. Overnight injections of migrant workers will not build healthy communities and can have severely adverse impacts on existing communities, especially those of indigenous nations on their traditional lands. Such development brings vices and long term displacement too often. Drugs, alcohol and associated violence spreads. Hunting becomes difficult when the land is threatened, leading to a further loss of culture and tradition. In towns like Fort McMurray there is no planning for the future, but merely consumption in the present. However transient the individuals may be, the populations will not leave, as “development” takes on a logic all its own. All levels of run away development are subordinate to that development, not social need.

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Parkland on the Stelmach royalty decision

Stelmach royalty decision shows it will be business as usual for Alberta
In reality, royalties will fall by over $2 billion over the next ten years -- even with the changes announced Thursday

Diana Gibson and Ricardo Acuña, Freelance

Albertans can finally stop holding their breath. After extensive public consultation by the royalty review panel, lukewarm reception of the panel's report and extensive backroom consultation with industry, Premier Ed Stelmach has finally made his royalty policy announcement.

Every Penny-- Comic

"Every Penny"
Kate Beaton
October 20, 2007
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/comics/1493

Townies - Comic

October 19, 2007

Townies (Fort McMurray)
by Katie Beaton
The Dominion http://dominionpaper.ca

Sexual Harassment-- K Beaton Comic

October 17, 2007
Sexual Harrassment

by Katie Beaton

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/comics/1487

Gateway to Solidarity? Pipelines and Indigenous communities in Northern BC

Gateway to Solidarity?
Pipelines and Indigenous communities in Northern BC
October 19, 2007
by Carla Lewis

The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca

The coast near Kitimat will soon be a route for tankers carrying oil, diluents and liquid natural gas if the Gateway pipeline is constructed.

Two years ago, pipelines were the furthest concern from anyone's mind. But today, most Indigenous communities in British Columbia have heard of the proposed pipelines and company names like "Enbridge" and, to a lesser extent, "Pembina" are tossed around like Kleenex.

Alberta's tar sands to supply South Dakota's oil projects

Pipeline, refinery would tap into Canadian crude
Oct 23, 2007 04:30 AM
Dirk Lammers

ASSOCIATED PRESS

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.

Working Full-Time: The work camps of Fort McMurray

October 17, 2007

Working Full-Time
The work camps of Fort McMurray

by Lindsay Bird

The Dominion - http://www.dominionpaper.ca

Two mechanics from site picked me up at the Fort McMurray Greyhound station at 2pm. I had spent the uncomfortable six-hour bus ride from Edmonton beside a large, sweating man from Bathurst, New Brunswick, who worked at the same site to which I was travelling. When this connection was discovered, he excitedly phoned his sons, also on-site, to tell them 'a girl was coming.' My introduction to the alternate society of work camps had begun.