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Actions and protests
Banners
Climate (campaign title)
Day
Deforestation
Energy
KWCI (GPI)
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil exploration
Outdoors
Outflow pipes
Syncrude
Tar sands
Toxic waste
Toxics (campaign title)
Tar Sands Protest at Syncrude Tailings Lake in Alberta, Canada
Greenpeace activists enter Syncrude's Aurora North tar sands operation and block a pipe into the two-kilometre wide tailings pond, where toxic refuse material from mining operations is deposited. The activists also suspend a banner that reads 'World's Dirtiest Oil: Stop the Tar Sands.'
Unique identifier:
GP01IVT
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
24/07/2008
Locations:
Alberta
,
Canada
,
Fort McMurray
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★★★★ (A)
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Tar Sands Protest at Syncrude Tailings Lake in Alberta, Canada
Greenpeace activists enter Syncrude's Aurora North tar sands operation and block a pipe into the two-kilometre wide tailings pond, where toxic refuse material from mining operations is deposited. The activists also suspend a banner that reads 'World's Dirtiest Oil: Stop the Tar Sands.' Located in Alberta, the tar sands are a source of oil spread out over 138 000 km2 of land and including 4.3 million hectares of the Boreal Forest. Companies produce over a million barrels of oil per day from the tar sands, and this number is constantly increasing. The explosive growth of these projects has huge environmental costs. Greenpeace is calling on oil companies and the government to stop the tar sands.
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