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High ResolutionStrong & Free? / Alberta Coat of Arms Parody
by Jason Stamatyades
Acrylic on board, 15 x 20”.
The Alberta tar sands cover an area of land the size of England, which has been divided up and leased to the world’s biggest oil companies. The surface area that must be destroyed to get at the oil is the Boreal Forest.
Two tonnes of tar sand is needed to produce a single barrel of oil. Three to five times more water and energy are required per barrel than any other source known to mankind. The tar sands use more water every day than a city of two million people and consume enough natural gas to heat six million Canadian homes. The tar sands generate 40 million tonnes of CO2 per year, more than all the cars in Canada combined. Because of the tar sands Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions have grown more since 1990 than those of any other G8 nation.
More information can be found here,
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/tarsands/
Original Alberta Coat Of Arms here,
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The Destruction Of Canadian Boreal Forest
by Jason StamatyadesWatercolour, charcoal & gouache on paper.
12 X 16 inches.
2012
Almost 80 per cent of the Earth’s original forests have been degraded or destroyed. The Boreal Forest is invaluable to the planet as it helps stabilize the climate by storing massive amounts of carbon. When the forest is degraded through logging and industrial development, massive amounts of greenhouse gasses are released into the atmosphere and the forest becomes more vulnerable to global warming impacts like fires and insect outbreaks. More than half of Canada’s landmass, the Boreal Forest sustains countless plants and animals, and is the source of life and culture for many indigenous communities.http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/forests/boreal/
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