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"Here's a test to find whether your
mission in life is finished.
If you're alive, it isn't!" - Richard Bach, author
Clearing the Air on Climate Change
A
National Speaking Tour on the Environmental Impacts of a Rapidly
Expanding Athabasca Tar Sands
 In
early June 2006, the BC Sustainable Energy Association sponsored
Elizabeth May to give two public presentations in Vancouver
and Victoria.
May is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has served for
16 years as the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada.
She stepped down from this post to pursue the leadership of
the Green Party of Canada. She has been closely involved in
international negotiations on climate change and ongoing discussions
of the Kyoto Protocol since the 1980s when she served in the
Conservative government of Brian Mulroney.
The speech given by Elizabeth in Vancouver on June 5, 2006,
is available for download from the Radio Ecoshock web page
(below).
The speech is broken up into two parts, each about half an
hour. This makes for easier downloads, faster web delivery,
and better radio play. The first part deals with Canada's
vision and failure on climate policy; the second "From
Crud to Crude" is about the Tar Sands.
Both are available at: www.ecoshock.org/DNclimate.html
Ecoshock expresses its thanks to Elizabeth May and to the
BC Sustainable Energy Association for making the speech possible
and allowing them to record it.
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