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Many thanks to Stephanie Potter and KBOO for permission to host the following interview.
Host Stephanie Potter speaks with Andrew
Nikiforuk, author of "Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a
Continent." Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the U.S. Canada now
produces more oil than Texas or Saudi Arabia. Canadian tar sand oil is
dirtier and more environmentally destructive than conventional oil. In
his recent book Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent,
Nikiforuk critiques the oil industry, oil-friendly bureaucrats, and
petrol-guzzling North Americans for contributing to the problem. (More
links: GreenPeace Vacation spoof, Oil Sands Truth, Oil Sands
Watch.)
The Oil Sands Truth site is a very informative site supplying an education on the topic of the devistation taking place in the Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada.
Please go to their webpage
http://oilsandstruth.org/.
The two following audio files are by the coordinator of the Oil Sands Truth site, Macdonald Stainsby:
Macdonald Stainsby was born and raised in Vancouver on the west coast and
moved in early 2007 to Edmonton Alberta in order to help raise awareness
of and eventually bring about the shut down of the largest industrial
project in history known as the Alberta Tar Sands, or "oil sands" to the
industry players themselves. Through bringing together communities who are
resisting different aspects of tar sands development for their own
reasons, Macdonald hopes to help facilitate peoples concerned with
environmental, social and health problems attributable to the tar sands to
get together in common cause to challenge the "gigaproject".
Oilsandstruth.org is the group Macdonald is coordinator of and this group
O.S.T. has brought together a few of the many voices in opposition to
Edmonton where they can collectively plan and respond to this development.
Macdonald is also a social justice organizer, freelance journalist, writer
and professional hitchhiker always on the lookout for a ride to the better
world. He can be reached via email at: macdonald@oilsandstruth.org
