Tar Sands - the dirtiest way to make oil - lecture in English at Tampere University 9th November

There will be really interesting lecture, see more details below (the lecture is in English!!)

When: On Monday 9th November (9.11.2009) at 4 pm
Where: At the University of Tampere (main building) lecture room: A2B (2nd floor)

Falk Beyer, campaigner and journalist
from Germany, gives lecture on Monday, November 9th at
the University of Tampere. After the talk there is the
possibility to watch the film "Power of Community: How Cuba Survived
Peak Oil" http://www.powerofcommunity.org

Arranged by TAMY's environmental club and
http://luontoliitto.fi
http://www.hyokyaalto.org

Tar Sands - the dirtiest way to make oil

While conventional oil resources are running out the oil industry is
forcing new ?unconventional? sources. In the Canadian province Alberta
nearly all big oil companies of the world currently are working hard to
destroy an area as big as Switzerland - they are looking for the Tar
Sands, a very oil-bearing soil. Alberta provides with the Tar Sands the
second biggest oil reserve in the world. But its a very dirty and
poisonous process to make the bitumen contained by the Tar Sands to an
useable oil. Extracting this unconventional oil resource doesn?t mean
only the destruction of large ecosystems but is also connected with
the continued disregard of indigenous rights and dispossessing of the
First Nations of Canada. The presentation is based on images taken at
the Tar Sands mines in Canada and is the start of a European campaign
against the Tar Sands industry.

picture: http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/tar_sands.jpg