H2Oil premieres in Ottawa

In the countdown to the Copenhagen negotiations, international pressure is building to discourage further expansion of Canada’s tar sands, and.... H2Oil premieres in Ottawa! When: Friday November 27 - Monday November 30, 2009 @ 7pm Where: Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street (just south of the Glebe) Canada has become the biggest oil supplier to the United States, is impeding international efforts to recognize the urgency of the global climate crisis and is ripping apart pristine forests on unceded Indigenous territory. With the controversial developments of the Athabasca tar sands, multinational corporations are moving into Alberta to extract crude oil from the tarry bitumen sands using a process so toxic it has become an international cause for concern. Four barrels of glacier-fed spring water are used to process each barrel of oil, then are dumped, laden with carcinogens, into leaky tailings ponds so huge they can be seen from space. Downstream, the people of Fort Chipewyan are already paying the price for what will be one of the largest industrial projects in history. When a local doctor raises the alarm about clusters of rare cancers, evidence mounts for industry and government cover-ups. In a time when wars are fought over oil and a crisis looms over access to clean fresh water, which resource is more precious? And what price are we willing to pay? Come to the Ottawa premiere of the film H2Oil screening from November 27th until November 30th at the Mayfair Theatre! A photo exhibit will be featured in the theatre demonstrating the toxic trail of tar sands from the pits of Alberta to the pipelines in Northern British Colombia and refineries in the Great Lakes Region. On November 29th, Clayton Thomas- Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network will be in attendance to answer audience questions. Community supporters include: Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement-Ottawa, OPIRG-Ottawa, OPIRG-Carleton, the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Polaris Institute. For more information, check out www.tarsandswatch.org, www.ienearth.org/cits.html, www.yourvotetheirfuture.ca, www.h2oil.com