ReturnToTheTarSands

We’re about to leave Red Deer and tonight will be our last night on the road. It’s gone by so fast.
After Edmonton we stayed with Richard and Linda McKelvie in their amazing home in Ponoka. They are an example of what we need to see more of as we enter such an uncertain future. Their [...]

Filed under: Environmental Justice, Labour, RTTTS, Renewable Energy, Trade on August 27th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

A couple of our actions this last week in Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan…
Protest outside Stelmach’s office
Guerilla Tar Sands Theatre at the Fringe

Filed under: Media, RTTTS on August 26th, 2008 | No Comments »

This is a slideshow taken from our flight from Fort Chipewyan to Fort McMurray. It shows the incredible beauty of the Athabasca Delta and the growing devastation of the tar sands.

Filed under: RTTTS on August 24th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

After three days biking in the northern woodlands, many mosquito and spider bites later, sweat-stained and with berry spots still on our palms, we have arrived in lovely Lac La Biche.  This place is a seeming pastoral paradise–sheep and cattle loose in the green, round hay-bales on the rolling hills, Saskatoon berries and rose hips along the grill of aspen, the edge between the inner, blacker forest and the [...]

Filed under: RTTTS, Renewable Energy on August 21st, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Posted by J.D.
In the last three days we’ve covered about 285km from Ft McMurray to Lac La Biche. Everyone is doing very well energy-wise on their bikes with only minor quibbles about funny noises but no flats or other breakdowns. Too bad we can’t say the same about our poor van. The battery isn’t charging [...]

Filed under: RTTTS on August 21st, 2008 | No Comments »