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<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;">I am doing the cycle and marathon with Kelly Rogers (see team page for her page). <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">However... IF YOU WANT TO JOIN US FOR THE MARATHON, PLEASE DO. <a title="Kielder Marathon" href="http://bit.ly/aEWprA" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>. SIGN UP... AND THEN GET TRAINING!</span></em></span></div>
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<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;">WHAT ARE YOU DOING?</span><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Raising awareness of the impacts of the extraction of Tar Sands</strong>.</span><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>A group of 8 young activists from the UK student network People & Planet</strong> are taking part in an exchange with young First Nations people to raise awareness of the Tar Sands. We want to <strong>listen</strong> to the views of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation in order to <strong>understand</strong> how they are being affected, <strong>positively and negatively</strong>, and how we can work with them to understand how the tar sands are affecting their lives and to see how UK students can <strong>work together</strong> with youth trying to raise awareness about the true impacts of tar sands development. </span><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><span style="color: #008000;">During our visit, we will be lucky enough to <strong>experience</strong> some of the local culture (and participate in local ceremonies, such as 'Pow Wow'), take a look at the area (tar sands and pristine wilderness), meet people who are already campaigning against the Tar Sands (IEN amongst others)... During the return trip we will be <strong>touring around universities</strong> together - it all starts at <strong>Shared Planet 2011, Oxford</strong>.</span><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><span style="color: #008000;"><a title="Taking on Tarmageddon Documentary on Vimeo" href="http://vimeo.com/tarmageddon" target="_blank">There is a documentary being made of the complete exchange, and we'll post up video diary updates as they come.</a></span></div>
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<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>The Alberta <a title="Wikipedia link to Oil Sands " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_sands" target="_blank">Tar Sands</a> make up the 2nd biggest oil reserve in the world - 2nd to Saudi Arabia. The area covered is approximately that of England and Wales combined</strong>. This oil is no ordinary oil - it's <strong>bitumen</strong>, sand, clay and other traces... It's cold and it has to have steam pumped into it to make it flow so it can be extracted, refined, upgraded, refined, upgraded... First Nations communities are being affected by these developme<span class="text_exposed_show" style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">nts. Their <strong>hunting, fishing and trapping rights are being threatened</strong>. Their communities are having to work in the oil industry to get by (a fork-lift truck driver reportedly earns around $100k/yr) and there has been an increase in cancers and other diseases. The pristine boreal forest is being ripped up. Up to 2 barrels of natural gas and 4 barrels of water are required to create 1 barrel of oil. <strong>Expansion: 1.5 million barrels per day now --> 7 million barrels per day in 2030.</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" />Perhaps the most worrying thing is CETA - this is anl agreement proposed between Canada and the EU. It will allow oil from the tar sands to be used in the EU for the first time. One clause suggests that companies from Canada or the EU will be able to sue if they are unable to operate due to environmental issues.<br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><strong>We want to raise £2500 by the end of the year... The money being raised (if you're up for it) is to get young First Nations people to come over to the UK and tell their stories of the 'most destructive industrial project in the world' - good and bad.</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 10px;" />Over the next few weeks there are a lot of opportunities for raising this money; we need to go out and raise it and tell people about the Tar Sands so we can create a movement to stop this. We need to draw up a timetable...</span></span></div>
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