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Say No to Tar Sands – Keep Dirty Oil out of Europe

Are you aware of the world’s largest on-going environmental disaster? Do you know what is the most carbon-intensive project currently under way? If you think of Canada as a country of vast wilderness and lakes, the north-eastern part of Alberta lives up to the billing, only here the wilderness is man-made and the lakes are huge ponds of toxic waste visible from space, by-products of the Tar Sands industry.
As part of International Day of Action against the Tar Sands, Manchester FoE took a big maple leaf design along to the Envirolution event in Platt Fields Park so visitors to the event (of all ages) could symbolically cover the leaf with handprints in black paint.

With European ministers due to decide on whether to let Tar Sands oil into Europe, we also invited everyone to sign a little maple-leaf postcard to send in to UK Transport Minister Norman Baker, urging him to stand firm against lobbying on behalf of big petrochemical businesses and keep oil from the Tar Sands out of the European Union.
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