Desmond Tutu Calls Oilsands "filth", Urges Cooperation On Environment
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Source: The Canadian Press
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu has called Alberta's oilsands "filth" created by greed, and has urged all sides to work together to protect the environment and aboriginal rights.
"The fact that this filth is being created now, when the link between carbon emissions and global warming is so obvious, reflects negligence and greed," Tutu told more than 200 rapt attendees at a conference on oilsands development and treaty rights in Fort McMurray on Saturday.
"The oilsands are emblematic of an era of high carbon and high-risk fuels that must end if we are committed to a safer climate."
"Oilsands development not only devastates our shared climate, it is also stripping away the rights of First Nations and affected communities to protect their children, land and water from being poisoned."
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The Athabasca, or Alberta, Tar Oilsands, as they were once known, are a source of immense wealth and immense environmental damage, the opposing forces of wealth are huge, but building a straw to suck up this filth and distribute it throughout the world will make climate disruption inevitable.
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