BC Speaking Tour on Tar Sands: The Dark Side of the Boom

BC Wide Speaking Tour on the Impacts of the Tar Sands on Communities in Alberta and BC.

*Vancouver - Tuesday, November 25th* [2008]
Heritage Hall
3102 Main St.
Vancouver, BC
Event to start 7 pm

Contact - Council of Canadians Vancouver Chapter:
email - norman.hill@shaw.ca
phone - 604-789-9331.

*COMPLETE LIST OF DATES AND LOCATIONS BELOW*

Speakers on the Panel include:

>> *MIKE MERCREDI* - Member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation will be speaking about the front line struggles of the indigenous community in Fort Chipewyan against the tar sands industry.

>> *JESSIE KALMAN* - Tar Sands Campaigner with the Polaris Institute will be speaking about the social & environmental impacts that the tar-sands including links to the Military and Water Depletion.

>> *WILL HORTER* - Executive Director of Dogwood Initiative will speak about the little known support that infrastructure based and proposed in BC provides to current and future tar-sands development. (Speaking in Vancouver, Victoria, Comox and Nanaimo)

Please join us for a very important panel about the largest industrial project in history that has been devastating the environment and communities in Alberta. This enormous development is expanding across the continent with little to no regard for the eco-systems and communities that lie in the path of the infrastructure. We are honored to have Mike Mercredi bringing a message from "ground zero" of the tar-sands as well as Jesse Kalman providing a broader view of the real impacts of the development and Will Horter highlighting the industrial expansion through BC to the Pacific.

This Tour is being organized, endorsed and supported by the Council of Canadians, the Polaris Institute, Canadian Union of Public Employees BC, the Sierra Club, the Dogwood Initiative,Greenpeace, Check-Your Head, Institute for Citizen Journalism, Tar Sands Free BC, North Coast Enviro Watch, Western Wilderness Committee.

*For More Information on the tour please email: hgrewal@canadians.org or
call: 604 688 8846*

*OTHER TOUR DATES:*

*Kitimat - Monday November 24th*
TBA
Contact - North Coast Enviro Watch:
email - coordinator@northcoastenvirowatch.org
phone - 250 624 2058

*Kamloops - Thursday, November 27th*
Collonade Room
Coast Canadian Inn
339 St. Paul St.
Kamloops, BC
Event to start 7pm

Contact - Council of Canadians Kamloops Chapter:
email - cgarden@mail.ocis.net
phone - 250-377-0055 / 250-375-2241

*Comox/Courtenay - Monday, December 1st*
Florence Filberg Conference Hall
411 Anderton,
Courtenay, BC
Event to start 7 pm

Contact - Council of Canadian Comox Valley Chapter:
email - frayneg@shaw.ca phone - (250) 338-6265

*Nanaimo - Tuesday, December 2nd*
Vancouver Island University—Nanaimo Campus
Room 109 - Building 356, 900 Fifth Street
Nanaimo, BC
Event to start 1:00pm

Contact - Council of Canadians Nanaimo Chapter:
email - blhansen@shaw.ca
phone - 250-245-2254 / 250-816-6253

*Victoria - Wednesday December 3rd*
The BCGEU Hall
2994 Douglas Street
Victoria, BC
Event to start 7pm

Contact - Council of Canadians Victoria Chapter:
email - barbaramp@fastmail.fm
phone - (250) 220-5355