"Wolves to be Poisoned Over Tar Sands"
This isn't over yet...
http://blog.nwf.org/2012/02/wolves-being-poisoned-over-tar-sands-in-canada/
"Late last week, internal documents went public showing Canada is fretting over its sullied reputation for unfettered fossil fuel development, while resorting to poisoning wolves rather than fixing the problem. NWF released a paper today showing tar sands, oil and gas development in Canada is contributing to the decline in caribou herds. Rather than improve environmental practices to protect and restore caribou habitat, Canadian wildlife officials are poisoning wolves with strychnine-laced bait. The news comes as Alberta and Canadian officials scramble to address environmental monitoring failures that are wreaking havoc up north. Wolf pups are likely innocent victims of Canadian oil and gas development.
(The highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal would move this Canadian dirty oil through the heartland of the U.S. to export, making the U.S. complicit in causing excruciating wildlife culling.) Strychnine progresses painfully from muscle spasms to convulsions to suffocation over a period of hours. The NWF paper says the poison will also put at risk animals like raptors, wolverines and cougars that eat the poisoned bait or scavenge on the carcasses of poisoned wildlife..."
http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/Policy-Solutions/Drilling-and-Mining/Tar-Sands.aspx
xchrom
(108,903 posts)LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Boombaby
(139 posts)FUCK!
handmade34
(22,755 posts)it isn't only Keystone... also Northern Gateway...
"...Should we send more of our raw bitumen to refineries in the U.S. or China via new pipelines? Keep in mind that the Keystone pipeline, now on hold in light of President Barack Obama's decision to reject the current proposal, is not for supplying the U.S. with oil, but to take the bitumen to Texas for refining and eventual export..."
http://www.zimbio.com/watch/AtSpJ-hxXlG/Canada+controversial+oil+sands+pipeline+project/AFP+TV+World
http://www.tarsandswatch.org/files/Water%20Contamination.pdf
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2011/tippingpoint/
http://www.tarsandswatch.org/tar-sands-watch-issue-factsheets
http://www.commonwealthadvisorybureau.org/uploads/media/Opinion_Nov11.pdf
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/science-matters/2012/01/oil-sands-and-pipeline-debates-hindered-by-lack-of-energy-plan/
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)Time to spread the word.
glinda
(14,807 posts)evilhime
(326 posts)I used to think Canada was better than we are when it comes to this kind of thing but apparently that's not the case . Disgusting that people think they are so much better than any other creature! Wonder how they'll feel when Cockroaches rule the earth and consider people expendable.
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)and they are the dirtiest form of oil anyway.
It really is disgusting what man will do to produce a profit.
infidel dog
(273 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)Boombaby
(139 posts)Already recced.
Tyrs WolfDaemon
(2,289 posts)to express my anger.
Unfortunately the only thing close is "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry"
Loki, cause them much chaos.
Tyr guard my brothers and sisters
Thor give us strength to fight
Odin, give them the wisdom to realize their mistakes and us the knowledge of how to fight
and Freya, please look after those that have already fallen and guide them to the Wild Hunt.
handmade34
(22,755 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Or so goes the sickening rhetoric around these things...
The Doctor.
(17,266 posts)We least deserve to be here.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)rwsanders
(2,585 posts)after congress illegally removed ESA protections from them. My wife and I won't eat beef for this and other reasons. It would be nice to see someone develop a "wildlife safe" label for beef like there is for tuna. Maybe then the ranchers would drop their rabid hatred of wolves.
Redstate Bluegirl
(213 posts)Why does this have to happen? It's not worth!