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Greenpeace Canada, Sierra Club Prairie Chapter, Keepers of the Athabasca and Global Community Monitor – all non-profit environmental groups – have partnered up to sponsor two initial monitors in the Three Creeks area and two in the Athabasca region.


ALBERTA, CANADA: Fresh air testing
by Erin Steele, Peace River Gazette
December 1st, 2010
Global Community Monitor (GCM) helps Three Creeks community members start their bucket brigade to test local air quality.

ALBERTA, CANADA: Health Issues Spur Northern Albertan residents to learn to Sample Own Air
Growing criticism of the Stelmach government’s and the oil industry’s air quality monitoring in communities near tar sands operations has spurred residents from the Peace and Athabasca regions to take matters into their own hands.

ALBERTA, CANADA: Ft. McKay folk to take air samples
by Hanneke Brooymans, Edmonton Journal
Bucket brigades were trained in the Fort McKay and Three Creeks areas in Alberta this week to collect air samples to monitor pollution.

ALBERTA, CANADA: Residents from Peace and Athabasca Regions Trained to Sample Own Air Quality
Press conference will highlight independent air quality testing of noxious gases in regions directly impacted by tar sands crude oil extraction.

Tar Sands Kills Again: Alberta oil spill kills hundreds of birds
Alberta's oil and gas industry is again in the environmental dock, as a spill at an oil well in the province has killed up to 500 ducks and swallows, according to reports from the scene.

Protests dog Alberta PR campaign to Cover Up Tar Sands Disaster
"you can't paint a black hole green and the tar sands is a very big, black hole.” Aaron Freeman.

Beyond Propaganda: Oil giant BP greenwashes Alberta tar sands
BP will soon begin extracting tar sands from the Canadian wilderness, a process Greenpeace calls 'the biggest environmental crime in history.' In 1997, after British Petroleum publicly acknowledged the harmful effects of global warming, it quickly became known as the oil company with environmental virtue

Grabbing for oil: U.S. thirst powers push for Canada fuel
Breathe deeply, though, and you catch a whiff of fresh, hot tar. In the river, fish are speckled with shiny, wart-like blisters. And in the tiny Indian village of Fort Chipewyan, people are coming down with leukemia, bile duct cancer and other diseases.



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