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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,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Alberta -
HARPER’S BILL C-38
by Jason Stamatyades
Gouache, water colour, conte on paper.Top reasons why Stephen Harper’s Bill C-38 (Omnibus bill) will destroy Canada’s natural environments and speed global warming.
Canada has failed miserably in reducing our carbon emissions (which have only risen) and now we have withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol. Stephen Harper and the Conservative party of Canada have made it clear that they absolutely do not care about our natural habitats/environments and have chosen to completely ignore global warming.
1. Bill C-38 guts environmental legislation and ‘streamlines’ the environmental review process to pave the way for rapid approval of industrial mega-projects like the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline in northern B.C., the Alberta tar sands, and Quebec’s Plan Nord.2. Bill C-38 officially withdraws Canada from the Kyoto Protocol reducing the federal government’s obligations to report on climate change policies.
3. Various aspects of Bill C-38, including changes to the environmental assessment review process, violate the federal government’s obligation to consult with First Nations and accommodate First Nation Treaty and Aboriginal rights.
4. Bill C-38 amends the Coasting Trade Act to allow increased off-shore seismic testing and drilling. Less than two years after such drilling was put on hold due to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Conservative government announced 905,000 hectares of Arctic watersopen for bidding.
5. Bill C-38 dedicates millions of dollars to attack environmental groups and charities through audits on foreign funding. Environmental groups are being targeted, despite the fact that the Canada Revenue Agency records show environmental charities are not the biggest recipients of foreign funding. -
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Oh my, this is such a beautiful and excellent film.
JASON'S GOD DAMNED TUMBLR
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