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Have you noticed more planes flying overhead in your community that leave trails behind them in the sky? Apparently these patterns are the result of “weather modification” programs — also referred to as “solar radiation management” or “chemtrails”. The international program involves spraying aluminum, barium, strontium and other toxic chemicals from airplanes at high altitudes that then fall to the ground, ending up in our bodies, our water, our soil and the air we breathe.

To learn more about what’s happening and what we can do to stop it, watch this video with THRIVE Producer, Director and Co-Writer, Kimberly Carter Gamble, and please share this news with your friends and family:



Learn more at:

http://www.thrivemovement.com/chemtrails-how-they-affect-you-and-what-you-can-do

Dozens of people have been arrested today at a sit-in staged in front of the White House to protest the proposed 1,700-mile-long Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to Texas, which President Obama is scheduled to mull over in the coming weeks.

About 70 people stood outside the north entrance of the building on Saturday August 20 with signs urging Obama to nix the plan by denying Calgary-based TransCanada a permit, according to media reports. Among the chanting protesters arrested were Gus Speth, who chaired the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality during Jimmy Carter’s presidency, The Wall Street Journal reported. He also co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“If we hook up the Alberta tar sands to America’s insatiable lust of gasoline, I worry that you can just kiss the planet good-bye,” he told The Wall Street Journal.

The arrests come on the heels of the National Congress of American Indians’ (NCAI) August 18 condemnation of the pipeline. Protesters are mobilizing through the second half of August to bring attention to the damaging effects of the existing installations, which many experts say are among the planet’s worst carbon offenders.

In this video, Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo lends his support to the protesters.

“Up north where the tar sands are located, native people’s homelands have already been wrecked,” he says, directing those against the pipeline to Tar Sands Action’s website. “All that new oil will worsen global warming. It’s time for us to get off fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are over.”

He may yet join the likes of aboriginal actress Tantoo Cardinal, from northern Alberta, who CBC News said plans to join the fray early next week along with her friend, Canadian actress Margot Kidder.

Read in-depth coverage and history of the controversial oil sands at CBC News, see some videos and hear what Jon Stewart of The Daily Show has to say.

SOURCE: Indian Country Today Media News Today

Some oil tanker statistics (Port of Vancouver)

Port Metro Vancouver

Metric tonnes of crude oil exported via Westridge terminal

2000: 8,404
2001: 512,886
2002: 805,596
2003: 1,118,154
2004: 452,003
2005: 1,166,538
2006: 1,311,648
2007. 2,138,101
2008: 2,208,847
2009: 3,916,333




READ MORE AT: Concern rising over oil tankers in Vancouver waters (CBC NEWS)

I've just sent a petition demanding our leaders protect BC's coast from the threat of oil spills.

Please take a minute to do the same.

Visit: www.notankers.ca

Take action to protect BC's coast from oil spills - Protect Our Pacific Coast from Oil Spills

Please consider signing this petition to stop all expansion of oil supertanker traffic through B.C.'s coastal waters. Signatories also take the important step of recognizing the authority of the Coastal First Nations and Save the Fraser declarations, which are exercises of First Nations' law that ban oil pipelines and tankers to B.C.'s coast. The petition calls on the House of Commons and the B.C. Legislature to use whatever means are available to stop the expansion of oil supertanker traffic through B.C.'s coastal waters.

On December 2, 2010, 61 interior First Nations joined together to ban Enbridge's oil pipelines from transiting their traditional territories.




61 First Nations have united in a historic alliance to protect the Fraser River watershed and declare their opposition to Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline proposal.

Dogwood's Eric Swanson gives an update from the event.

To learn more visit: http://dogwoodinitiative.org/