The UK Tar Sands Network campaigns in partnership with Indigenous communities affected by the Tar Sands oil developments in Canada. We target governments, UK companies, banks and investors operating in the Alberta Tar Sands.
As Violence at Standing Rock escalates call to Obama to end Police Brutality and Defund DAPL goes International On November 15th 2016, in the rain, over 200 people peacefully gathered on the doorstep of the US Embassy in London to demand that President Obama’s Army Corps of Engineers, and the Administration incoming in January 2017,… Continue Reading
Trudeau Targeted by Pipeline Protest in London, UK Pressure continues to build on Trudeau to reject Kinder Morgan pipeline as UN climate talks enter second week Images available here London, UK – This morning concerned citizens from England and Canada staged a solidarity sit-in on the front steps of Canada House in London, demanding that… Continue Reading
The UK Tar Sands Network has been on the move in the last few weeks with friends from both the Canadian tar sands and the Gulf of Mexico. In the wake of the recent Shell spill in the Gulf we came together with the Indigenous Environmental Network to stage a living exhibition outside the Shell… Continue Reading
I traveled from the Mississippi River Delta to the Netherlands, to the Hague, home of the International Criminal Court, to attend Shell’s annual general meeting; to ask the world’s 7th largest company, the world’s 2nd largest oil company why is it that they continue to take advantage of the Gulf of Mexico, in more dangerous… Continue Reading
