Polluter Pay Alberta Garbage Day 3:00 PM Saturday October 28, 2023
Location: Violet King Henry Plaza at The Alberta Legislature Grounds 99 Avenue & 108 Street
Purpose: To protest the Alberta government’s lack of action on holding resource extraction industries responsible for their pollution. Tailings ponds from tar sands extraction now spread over an area larger than metropolitan Vancouver. Recent tailings leaks from the Imperial Oil Kearl site went unreported for months. Lack or responsible tailings management has escalated into a serious public health issue. The price tag for the clean up of orphaned oil and gas wells is now estimated at $30 billion.
We join with Indigenous peoples to say NO to dumping this toxic effluent into the Athabasca River.
We say NO to taxpayers footing a now $30 billion bill for cleaning up orphan oil and gas wells abandoned by industry in the UCP’s Liability Management Incentive Program, formerly R-Star.
Join other citizens to dump bags of garbage on The Plaza at the Alberta Legislature, Saturday, October 28 at 3 pm, two days before the Alberta Legislature reconvenes. Please come with your bag of garbage to add to the pile. Rest assured, we will clean up our mess, unlike the extraction industries who profit hugely but resist accountability for responsible resource management and restoration.
Bring your signs! Bring your voices!
Co-sponsored by: The Edmonton Chapter of The Council of Canadians
This action is organized by the Polluter Pay Garbage Day Citizens Action Group.
Contact Acting Spokesperson: Breezy Brian Gregg Amiskwacîwâskahikan/ Edmonton