Activists drop 70′ banner off of NIAGARA FALLS to tell Canadian PM ‘NO TAR SANDS oil!’

A small team of cli­mate activists rap­pelled from the US obser­va­tion deck at Nia­gara Falls. Dan­gling hun­dreds of feet above the ground, they sent a spe­cial wel­come mes­sage to Cana­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Stephen Harp­er ahead of his first offi­cial vis­it to the White House to push dirty Tar Sands oil.

Tar Sands OilA small team of cli­mate activists rap­pelled from the US obser­va­tion deck at Nia­gara Falls. Dan­gling hun­dreds of feet above the ground, they sent a spe­cial wel­come mes­sage to Cana­di­an Prime Min­is­ter Stephen Harp­er ahead of his first offi­cial vis­it to the White House to push dirty Tar Sands oil.

Dur­ing Harper’s first offi­cial trip to meet Oba­ma in the U.S., the two lead­ers are expect­ed to dis­cuss cli­mate change and ener­gy pol­i­cy ahead of the upcom­ing G20 Sum­mit. Cana­da sup­plies 19% of U.S. oil imports, more than half of which now comes from the tar sands, mak­ing the region the largest sin­gle source of U.S. oil imports. The expan­sion of the tar sands will strip mine an area the size of Flori­da. Com­plete with sky­rock­et­ing rates of can­cer (by 400%!) for First Nations com­mu­ni­ties liv­ing down­stream, bro­ken treaties, tox­ic belch­ing lakes so large you can see them from out­er space, churn­ing up ancient bore­al for­est, destroyed air and water qual­i­ty, the tar sands have been called the most destruc­tive project on Earth.

For the full sto­ry and more infor­ma­tion vis­it http://understory.ran.org/2009/09/15/breaking-activists-drop-70-banner-off-of-niagra-falls-to-tell-canadian-pm-no-tar-sands-oil/