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It is stopping the tar sands.
And most controversially, it means the tar sands.
So this is where the tar sands live, under one of the last magnificent Boreal forests.
But I interviewed one of the women, who had been bitten on the breast by one of these dogs, and the ferocity and strength of her was incredible, and she's out right now in another resistance camp, the same resistance camp I'm part of, fighting Line 3, another pipeline project in my people's homelands, wanting 900,000 barrels of tar sands per day through the headwaters of the Mississippi to the shore of Lake Superior and through all the Treaty territories along the way.
This is the Alberta tar sands, the largest oil reserves on the planet outside of Saudi Arabia.
So they decided to call it oil sands.
The tar sands consume more water than any other oil process, three to five barrels of water are taken, polluted and then returned into tailings ponds, the largest toxic impoundments on the planet.
The tar sands toxins are in the food chain, and this is causing cancer rates up to 10 times what they are in the rest of Canada.
And you can see here the Keystone Pipeline, which would take tar sands raw down to the Gulf Coast, punching a pipeline through the agricultural heart of North America, of the United States, and securing the contract with the dirtiest fuel in the world by consumption of the United States, and promoting a huge disincentive to a sustainable clean-energy future for America.
When one of these tar sands tankers, carrying the dirtiest oil, 10 times as much as the Exxon Valdez, eventually hits a rock and goes down, we're going to have one of the worst ecological disasters this planet has ever seen.
And we need to all gather together and say no to the tar sands.
The tar sands could threaten not just a large section of the boreal.
I hope that you will all, if you've been moved by this presentation, join with the growing international community to get Canada to step up to its responsibilities, to convince Canada to go back to being a climate change champion instead of a climate change villain, and to say no to the tar sands, and yes to a clean energy future for all.
These are sand from near the Great Lakes, and you can see that it's filled with minerals like pink garnet and green epidote, all kinds of amazing stuff, and if you look at different sands from different places, every single beach, every single place you look at sand, it's different.
This is what accumulates in the tar sands of Alberta.
Tell the sands, every blade of grass, please tell the wind to let my love pass.
If you are investing in tar sands or shale oil, then you have a portfolio that is crammed with sub-prime carbon assets.
Developing tar sands and coal shale is the equivalent.
Pages that do find sanctuary under the advancing sands of time are never truly safe.
He used to say we are all going to be walking on moving sands.
The geriatrician will intervene late in the day, when pathology is becoming evident, and the geriatrician will try and hold back the sands of time, and stop the accumulation of side effects from causing the pathology quite so soon.
And geriatricians try to hold back the sands of time by stopping the damage converting into pathology.
Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
They don't like fighting over oil, they don't like being in the sands and they don't like where the oil money goes and what sort of instability it creates.
The pair try to walk without rhythm, letting the vibrations of their footsteps blend into the shifting sands.
And still, those extreme environments are very good places if we want to stop the shifting sands.
FULL METAL JACKET meets SANDS OF IWO JIMA .
Well its ten year's on since this film was released and the sands of time have not improved it one bit, again like the other comments made the Aussie film makers should have a little more drama rather than middle class aussies riding around beautiful places on there bikes with not much in the was of dialog.
How could any producer/network executive/director let a crew stick the skeeziest fakest plastic palm trees in film history in the sands of a wintry Canadian beach and try to fob it off on us as the tropics?
I am a man!") he has to babble nonsense about "the will of Allah" and "the wind blows destiny across the desert sands."
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