Tar Sands Campaign
The Alberta tar sands industry is behind intensified carbon emissions, rampant air and water pollution, rapid deforestation, and absurd amounts of energy and water waste. And this devastation extends much farther, across a web of pipelines, shipping, ‘refineries,’ and other such tentacles of the tar sands industry.
We insist that RBC, the main tar sands financier, withdraw financing for all projects associated with the tar sands. We also are demanding that RBC — and other corporations that have profited from the tar sands and the governments that encouraged them — pay reparations to all native communities harmed by tar sands projects. For part of our RBC campaign, we are trying to get the University of Western Ontario to divest from RBC, and to remove all ATMs owned by RBC from the campus.
RBC ATM flyer
Here is a flyer [pdf] you can use to oppose RBC’s tar sands financing. The flyer was made for RBC ATMs. We invite you to make copies and stick them on RBC ATMs — to join us in taking a stand against the harm stemming from RBC’s investments. (Note: Our flyer is a version of another one that was made by the Rainforest Action Network.)
RBC pamphlet
A double-sided eaflet about the tar sands and RBC [pdf]
Campus campaign: Online petition about RBC
We are collecting signatures for an online petition which calls for campus divestment from RBC. Help us to tell RBC that we reject their attempts to profit from environmental destruction and social injustices. (Please note: we don’t receive any money from the advertisements, which also weren’t there at first when we set up this petition.)
Campus campaign: RBC Flyer
A double-sided half-sheet flyer about RBC and the University of Western Ontario
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External Resources
- Canadian Indigenous Environmental Network Tar Sands Campaign
- RBC and the Tar Sands: A Report (Rainforest Action Network)
- RBC Out of Tar Sands Campaign (Rainforest Action Network)
- Canada’s Toxic Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth (a report from Environmental Defence)
