Canada's Disastrous Oil Policy, a free public conference with the author of "Stupid to the Last Drop" (March 11)

Citizens in Action, a non-profit, non-partisan, progressive group of concerned citizens, dedicated to economic & social justice presents:

Canada's Disastrous Oil Policy
A Free Public Conference with William Marsden, senior investigative journalist and author of Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is bringing environmental Armageddon to Canada (and doesn't seem to care), winner of the National Business Book Award.

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009.
Place: Concordia Hall Bldg.
1455 de Maisonneuve Bldvd. West, (corner Bishop)
room: 1220
Time: 7:00 p.m. sharp

As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic cimate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells. In his best selling and controversial book, William Marsden takes an unflinching look at the Alberta oil and gas industry. He explains the increasingly violent geopolitical forces that are gathering as the world's gas and oil supply dwindles and the Age of Oil begins its inevitable slide towads oblivion. He toured the province, forcefully relating the stories of ordinary Albertans' David-and-Goliath battles with corporate and government bullies. most importantly, he revealed how Canada's richest province is squandering our chance for a sustainable future.

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N.B. Citizens in Action usually meets once a month, to tackle a different political issue, at Concordia Hall bldg. room 1220. For further information, please call the founder & coordinator of the group, Nadia Alexan, at tel. (514) 846-0644 or e-mail: nadia.alexan@sympatico.ca