Tar-magedon: Activists in Britain Target British Petroleum's Reach for the Tars http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news7181.php

After two weeks of direct action, the “BP Fortnight of Shame” concluded yesterday (15th) with protests outside the oil giant’s AGM and a rooftop occupation in Brighton. Throughout the country, activists targeted BP over its plans to extract oil from the Alberta tar sands in Canada (see SchNEWS 716) in protests which peaked last Saturday (10th) when hundreds of climate activists in London, Brighton, Oxford and Cambridge descended on BP garages for the “Party at the Pumps”. 

Described by campaigners as ‘the most destructive project on earth’, the Alberta tar sands extractions are already the world’s largest industrial operation. Millions of barrels of tar sands oil are being extracted every day, producing three to five times as many greenhouse gas emissions as conventional oil extraction - committing eco-trocity across vast areas of ancient forest whilst producing lakes of toxic waste. By 2020, the tar sands are expected to have released over 141 megatonnes of greenhouse gases – twice that produced by all the cars and trucks in Canada combined.