[Vision2020] Fw: H2oil documentary

Tue Aug 10 17:29:18 PDT 2010

Here are some links that may aid in learning more about the Alberta oil/tar sands, especially the China connection.  Why should Idaho roads be used to help create an environmental disaster far greater than the current BP disaster, and to make China (and France), not the U.S. and Canada richer?

It's time for our country to invest private and public resources into developing large scale solar energy generation and storage source, just like the space race program in the 50's and 60's.  That will help us wean off foreign oil and make it easier to oppose horrible plans like the oil/tar sands.

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/06/24/alberta%E2%80%99s-tar-sands-a-slow-motion-equivalent-of-the-gulf-disaster/

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/22/CHINA.TMP

http://www.greenfudge.org/2010/02/17/tar-sands-china-invests-in-canadian-oil-as-u-s-moves-out/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8231006.stm

http://www.tarsandswatch.org/chinas-oil-sands-push

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/5605227-alberta-oil-sands-deal-gives-china-veto-rights-on-oil-exports

If you Google: Alberta oil tar sands china   or   Alberta oil tar sands environment

you will find hundreds of articles, some clearly not only scary from an environmental viewpoint, but from the specter of China gaining more wealth and power at great costs to the U.S. and Canada.

We need to stop these shipments that have very little benefit to the U.S. but bode great future losses, but huge gains for China, an environmentally insensitive country of enormous power.

Every day this last week in Canada the business sections of the newspapers were full of news and OP/ED articles about the oil/tar sands and the huge foreign investments (China and France) who give not a whit about causing environmental problems of great magnitude far from their homelands.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dave 
  To: Art Deco 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:40 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: H2oil documentary

  I think the people at Fighting Goliath  http://www.fightinggoliath.org/  would be interested.  I have not seen this info come through that channel, though I may be wrong it could be old news to them.

  Dave

  On 08/10/2010 03:27 PM, Art Deco wrote: 
    I think it is important for someone at this meeting to speak to the fact that China is the largest investor in the tar sands projects and now has the controlling interest in those projects with the right to determine to whom the oil is sold and for what price.  It is not in the interest of our country to support these projects in any way.  I can provide some links if anyone is interested.

    Wayne A. Fox
    1009 Karen Lane
    PO Box 9421
    Moscow, ID  83843

    waf at moscow.com
    208 882-7975

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Andy Boyd 
      To: vision 2020 
      Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:38 AM
      Subject: [Vision2020] Fw: H2oil documentary

      From Andy Boyd

      All,

      Wanted to officially invite/remind  all of you that Friends of the Clearwater, Palouse group of the Sierra Club and citizens are co-sponsoring the documentary H2oil at the Kenworthy Theatre in Moscow, Idaho on Wednesday August 18th. Doors open at 6:30pm, film begins at 7:00pm, and admission is free.

      H2oil tells the story of the destructive Tar Sands strip-mining occurring on the Boreal Forest in Alberta, Canada and the social, ecological, economic and political consequences because of it. We hope the film will educate the public even further about the Tar Sands, and give added sentiment to deny permits for trucking oil processing rigs up Rt 12.

      No need to RSVP but would love to see any and all of you there. There will be a short ten minute introduction, the film should be about 80 minutes, and there will be a 15-30 minute Q&A session afterwards. I am hoping someone will be willing to stand on the stage with me during the Q & A session.

      We will be handing out free information about the Highway 12 proposal and collecting signatures on the petition to deny permits at the theatre.

      The event is being advertised in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News, the Lewiston Tribune, the Clearwater Progress, the Idaho County Free Press, the University of Idaho's Argonaut, and the Lewis & Clark State College Pathfinder, as well as KRFP Radio Free Moscow. Please spread the word further.

      Attached is the poster that accompanies the film.

      Call or email if you have any questions.

      Brett
      Outreach & Education

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