Press release - September 15, 2009
responding to the Harper and Obama meeting today, speaking from inside a Greenpeace blockade of a Shell tar sands mining operations, Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada said:
"We haven't seen nearly enough concrete commitments from the
Harper-Obama meeting that they will move quickly to help the world
avert catastrophic climate change."
"Greenpeace has been occupying a mining site in the heart of the
tar sands - the frontiers of climate destruction - for the last 24
hours to focus attention on the urgent need for action on climate
change.
"It is clear that world leaders still need to get the message.
We will continue to expose the horror of the tar sands until they
face the urgent facts and wean themselves off the brutal addiction
to fossil fuel which threatens us all with catastrophic climate
change.
"The message going into critical UN climate negotiations in
Copenhagen this December is that climate leaders don't buy tar
sands."
Greenpeace will continue to bear witness to the total
devastation that is the tar sands---http://www.greenpeace.org/stoptarsands
For more information, please
contact:
Jessica Wilson, Greenpeace media and public relations officer,
(778) 228-5404
Mike Hudema, Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner (780)
504-5601 (at the blockade)