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Why I’m Marching for Climate Action by Michael Brune
I’ve long known how wasteful, destructive, and dangerous the process of extracting oil from tar sands is. You have to dig up four tons of dirt and rock to get one barrel of oil. Beautiful old-growth boreal forest becomes a wasteland.
And that single barrel of oil? It creates three times as much climate pollution as producing a barrel of conventional crude.
That’s why I was willing to go to jail for protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. But comprehending the brutal reality of tar sands mining requires seeing it firsthand.
So I spent four days this summer in Alberta, Canada with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and First Nations leaders. We met with officials from Suncor Energy, one of the companies most involved in extracting tar sands, and walked through the dismal wreckage of what the company calls a “reclaimed” area.
And that single barrel of oil? It creates three times as much climate pollution as producing a barrel of conventional crude.
That’s why I was willing to go to jail for protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. But comprehending the brutal reality of tar sands mining requires seeing it firsthand.
So I spent four days this summer in Alberta, Canada with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky and First Nations leaders. We met with officials from Suncor Energy, one of the companies most involved in extracting tar sands, and walked through the dismal wreckage of what the company calls a “reclaimed” area.
Source link: http://otherwords.org/why-i-will-march-for-climate-action/
