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Article

23 Aug 2009

Author:
Terry Macalister, Guardian [UK]

Cree aboriginal group to join London climate camp protest over tar sands

Members of the Cree aboriginal peoples are to join the Climate Camp protests in the City of London...in an attempt to draw attention to corporate Britain's "criminal" involvement in the tar sands of Canada…Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, from Fort Chipewyan...said: "British companies such as BP and Royal Bank of Scotland in partnership with dozens of other companies are driving this project, which is having such devastating effects on our environment and communities.”…BP and Shell are two of the major oil companies extracting oil from the tar sands...The oil companies both dispute the amount of pollution caused by tar sands and insist they must be exploited if the world is not going to run out of oil. [also refers to Drax, E.ON]