First Nations At Risk Due To Oil Sands!

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Can't say I didn't warn about this:

@tinydancer @Katzndogz @CrusaderFrank

Report Tar Sands Contaminate First Nations Foods Give Residents Cancer Common Dreams Breaking News Views for the Progressive Community
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The development of Alberta oil sands is contaminating area wildlife, and as a result degrading the health of indigenous people in Canada's First Nations, including by contributing to higher cancer rates, according to a report released Monday by the University of Manitoba’s Environmental Conservation Lab.

Titled Environmental and Human Health Implications of the Athabasca Oil Sands for the Mikisew Cree First Nation and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Northern Alberta, the report found that “substantial employment opportunities are generated by the oil sands. Yet, this development, as well as upstream hydro projects, compromises the integrity of the environment and wildlife, which, in turn, adversely affects human health and well-being.”

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Bullshit. My father was a petroleum geophysicist who worked at the Tar Sands in the 60's. This propaganda is coming from the communist element as usual.

 

[Dot Com]

You mean the University of Manitoba? Yeah. So? Where else is it supposed to come from?

 

[Old Rocks]

Bullshit. My father was a petroleum geophysicist who worked at the Tar Sands in the 60's. This propaganda is coming from the communist element as usual.

Oil sands pollution linked to higher cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for first time study Financial Post

EDMONTON — Pollution in the oil sands have been linked to elevated cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for the first time.

The effect on health in communities downwind of development is “clear and worrisome,” researcher Stephane McLachlan said Monday during a news conference in Edmonton. “Something unique is happening in Fort Chipewyan, especially around cancer.”

Conducted in collaboration with the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations, the University of Manitoba study found fish and animals consumed as part of a traditional diet contained unusually high concentrations of contaminants emitted during the extraction and upgrading of bitumen.

Perhaps you should research before posting.

 

[Old Rocks]

Fort Chipewyan south towards Edmonton there are 17 sites measuring air quality, but here the monitoring outpost sits across the Athabasca River from the highway that connects the mining town with the oil mines to the north, and just down the road from the new multi-million dollar recreation center. Machines, such as the electronic nose or the laser-wielding robot that measures atmospheric ozone 10 kilometers up known as the sun photometer, constantly monitor the concentrations of pollution in the air. Data about acid rain-forming sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides levels feeds into a Web site updated every five minutes. Overseeing all this technology is Kelly Baragar, an air monitoring specialist for more than two decades who has worked in Middle Eastern deserts and Indonesian jungles before arriving here in the cold, boreal forest that is undergoing a rapid transformation into a working landscape of oil extraction.
Oil Sands Raise Levels of Cancer-Causing Compounds in Regional Waters - Scientific American

And more.

 

[Old Rocks]

Tar Sands

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The INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK CANADIAN INDIGENOUS TAR SANDS CAMPAIGN works with Indigenous and non-Indigenous supporters and environmental organizations, social justice organizations and unions for a coordinated and collective response led by concerned First Nations and Métis opposing the expansion of the tar sands.

Canadian Tar Sands Resistance
Indigenous peoples (known as First Nations) in Canada are taking the lead to stop the largest industrial project on Mother Earth: the Tar Sands Gigaproject. Northern Alberta is ground zero with over 20 corporations operating in the tar sands sacrifice zone, with expanded developments being planned. The cultural heritage, land, ecosystems and human health of First Nation communities including the Mikisew Cree First Nation, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Fort McMurray First Nation, Fort McKay Cree Nation, Beaver Lake Cree First Nation Chipewyan Prairie First Nation, and the Metis, are being sacrificed for oil money in what has been termed a “slow industrial genocide”. Infrastructure projects linked to the tar sands expansion such as the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline, threaten First Nation communities in British Columbia, Canada and American Indian communities throughout the United States. Community resistance is growing and Indigenous peoples throughout North America have mounted substantive challenges to tar sands expansion.

Just a few years ago, people in Canada, U.S. and Europe heard little to nothing about the Canadian tar sands. Today, the tar sands have become a topic of national and international discussion as stories of cancer epidemics in the community of Fort Chipewyan, massive wildlife losses related to toxic contamination, environmental degradation and increased vocal resistance from impacted communities have shattered the ‘everything is fine’ myth propagated by the Canadian and Alberta governments. A poll conducted in 2010 found that 50% of Canadian citizens believe the risks involved with tar sands projects outweighed the benefits.1 Yet, tar sands expansion continues. Already the Athabasca delta has been completely altered from a pristine boreal forest, clean rivers and lakes to a devastated ecosystem of deforestation, open pit mines and watershed where fish regularly exhibit tumors and birds landing on contaminated tailings ponds die instantly.

So, where are those committed individuals that regularly scream about a few tens of birds killed by windmills. There are thousands killed by this reckless mining of the far north. And the cancers that they are seeing now in fish will soon be seen in the people that are there.

 

[Old Rocks]

Tar sands, cancer and becoming an Elder: stories from Fort Chipewyan
Emma Pullman is writing stories from impacted communities on the front lines of the tar sands in the lead up to the 4th Annual Healing Walk, a spiritual gathering and 14km walk to pray for the healing of the land and people at the front lines of tar sands expansion. The Healing Walk is July 5-6, 2013 in Fort McMurray, Alberta. You can follow her work here and on Rabble.ca.

Tar sands cancer and becoming an Elder stories from Fort Chipewyan Vancouver Observer

Not much differant than the stories of land taken and desecrated here in the US.

 

[martybegan]

One study that just happens to agree with your belief structure.

Quel Surprise.....

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Bullshit. My father was a petroleum geophysicist who worked at the Tar Sands in the 60's. This propaganda is coming from the communist element as usual.

Oil sands pollution linked to higher cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for first time study Financial Post

EDMONTON — Pollution in the oil sands have been linked to elevated cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for the first time.

The effect on health in communities downwind of development is “clear and worrisome,” researcher Stephane McLachlan said Monday during a news conference in Edmonton. “Something unique is happening in Fort Chipewyan, especially around cancer.”

Conducted in collaboration with the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations, the University of Manitoba study found fish and animals consumed as part of a traditional diet contained unusually high concentrations of contaminants emitted during the extraction and upgrading of bitumen.

Perhaps you should research before posting.

There are thousands upon thousands of white workers who've been at the Tar Sands for decades. They eat the same fish and game. I see there is absolutely no room in the academic/native Indian propaganda narrative stating whether or not their cancer rates are any different than if they lived in Calgary, Vancouver, or Montreal. What's up with that?

 

[Old Rocks]

Bullshit. My father was a petroleum geophysicist who worked at the Tar Sands in the 60's. This propaganda is coming from the communist element as usual.

Oil sands pollution linked to higher cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for first time study Financial Post

EDMONTON — Pollution in the oil sands have been linked to elevated cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for the first time.

The effect on health in communities downwind of development is “clear and worrisome,” researcher Stephane McLachlan said Monday during a news conference in Edmonton. “Something unique is happening in Fort Chipewyan, especially around cancer.”

Conducted in collaboration with the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations, the University of Manitoba study found fish and animals consumed as part of a traditional diet contained unusually high concentrations of contaminants emitted during the extraction and upgrading of bitumen.

Perhaps you should research before posting.

There are thousands upon thousands of white workers who've been at the Tar Sands for decades. They eat the same fish and game. I see there is absolutely no room in the academic/native Indian propaganda narrative stating whether or not their cancer rates are any different than if they lived in Calgary, Vancouver, or Montreal. What's up with that?

And you are a fucking liar. As one with a life long interest in geology, not just hunting for oil, but the whole picture, I really don't care that your father endorsed the corperatist lies for a paycheck. There are many carcinogens in petroleum. Known fact. And that is now having an effect as the tar sands mining is in full swing.

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

Bullshit. My father was a petroleum geophysicist who worked at the Tar Sands in the 60's. This propaganda is coming from the communist element as usual.

Oil sands pollution linked to higher cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for first time study Financial Post

EDMONTON — Pollution in the oil sands have been linked to elevated cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for the first time.

The effect on health in communities downwind of development is “clear and worrisome,” researcher Stephane McLachlan said Monday during a news conference in Edmonton. “Something unique is happening in Fort Chipewyan, especially around cancer.”

Conducted in collaboration with the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations, the University of Manitoba study found fish and animals consumed as part of a traditional diet contained unusually high concentrations of contaminants emitted during the extraction and upgrading of bitumen.

Perhaps you should research before posting.

There are thousands upon thousands of white workers who've been at the Tar Sands for decades. They eat the same fish and game. I see there is absolutely no room in the academic/native Indian propaganda narrative stating whether or not their cancer rates are any different than if they lived in Calgary, Vancouver, or Montreal. What's up with that?

And you are a fucking liar. As one with a life long interest in geology, not just hunting for oil, but the whole picture, I really don't care that your father endorsed the corperatist lies for a paycheck. There are many carcinogens in petroleum. Known fact. And that is now having an effect as the tar sands mining is in full swing.

Shut up moron.

 

[flacaltenn]

Tar sands, cancer and becoming an Elder: stories from Fort Chipewyan
Emma Pullman is writing stories from impacted communities on the front lines of the tar sands in the lead up to the 4th Annual Healing Walk, a spiritual gathering and 14km walk to pray for the healing of the land and people at the front lines of tar sands expansion. The Healing Walk is July 5-6, 2013 in Fort McMurray, Alberta. You can follow her work here and on Rabble.ca.

Tar sands cancer and becoming an Elder stories from Fort Chipewyan Vancouver Observer

Not much differant than the stories of land taken and desecrated here in the US.

This is all about extorting more funds for Indian Affairs. Says so right in the RECOMMENDATIONS section of the report. A report BOUGHT and PAID for by the tribes. They see all that money being made and they WANT them a piece of it..

GUARANDAMTEED --- they don't want to stop the mining.. They just want to benefit from it..

I've got no problem with that ---- but let's not call it "settled science"..

 

[Old Rocks]

Sure. Asshole like you said the same concerning asbestos.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Bullshit. My father was a petroleum geophysicist who worked at the Tar Sands in the 60's. This propaganda is coming from the communist element as usual.

Embracing communism is the only solution

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[Dot Com]

Bullshit. My father was a petroleum geophysicist who worked at the Tar Sands in the 60's. This propaganda is coming from the communist element as usual.

Oil sands pollution linked to higher cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for first time study Financial Post

EDMONTON — Pollution in the oil sands have been linked to elevated cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan for the first time.

The effect on health in communities downwind of development is “clear and worrisome,” researcher Stephane McLachlan said Monday during a news conference in Edmonton. “Something unique is happening in Fort Chipewyan, especially around cancer.”

Conducted in collaboration with the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations, the University of Manitoba study found fish and animals consumed as part of a traditional diet contained unusually high concentrations of contaminants emitted during the extraction and upgrading of bitumen.

Perhaps you should research before posting.

There are thousands upon thousands of white workers who've been at the Tar Sands for decades. They eat the same fish and game. I see there is absolutely no room in the academic/native Indian propaganda narrative stating whether or not their cancer rates are any different than if they lived in Calgary, Vancouver, or Montreal. What's up with that?

And you are a fucking liar. As one with a life long interest in geology, not just hunting for oil, but the whole picture, I really don't care that your father endorsed the corperatist lies for a paycheck. There are many carcinogens in petroleum. Known fact. And that is now having an effect as the tar sands mining is in full swing.

Shut up moron.

Anecdotal evidence much n00b?, save it!!!