Oil Companies and Alberta Government Go After Little Old Lady
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 10.31.07
85 Year old Liz Moore took a tour of Canada's oil sands. “I was appalled at what I saw—the devastation of the land,” she says of her visit to a Syncrude mine in Fort McMurray, Alberta. “I came home and decided people in the U.S. needed to hear about this, because we’ll be buying more and more oil from Canada.”
She could have used a little help from our Fed on the graphics, but her website delivers a powerful message of destruction and environmental depredation. (See also the Guardian here on the subject). It was even more powerful before Oil giant Syncrude and a branch of the Alberta government tried to squash her like a bug.
Kevin Graham talks to Liz in E-Magazine:
“It made me angry at a very deep level,” Moore says. “I don’t like censorship, and if it’s done to me, I like it even less.” Moore later learned that a release she signed before her tour gave the company the right to limit the use of her photos.
The oil-sands mining company saw things differently. “We see this as an issue of copyright, accuracy and quality,” a Syncrude spokesperson told the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper.
Moore’s website offers a slide show about the destructiveness of the oil-sands mining process. The show includes photos she took during her trip to Fort Mc-Murray, but 17 of the site’s roughly 70 images have been re-moved and replaced with “censored” banners.
But help is on the way. Moore has been contacted by a Canadian nonprofit organization and individual photographers who have photos to replace the images that were censored.
Those responses, along with hundreds of “you go, girl”-type e-mails and invitations to return to Canada to give talks, have been heartwarming, Moore says.
“It’s why I keep it up,” she adds.
See the whole show at ::Oil Sands of Canada; via ::E Magazine and ::Myninjaplease
Treehugger needs help on web design. I wouldn't go criticizing other peoples sites.
why does treehugger need help?? what overly flashy and annoying sites do you visit? treehugger is great as is - easy to use, easy to navigate.
on a more important note - this woman is amazing; i hope we hear more about her.
Treehugger needs help on web design. I wouldn't go criticizing other peoples sites.
Are you kidding? Take a look at your website - which no one goes to, btw.
Stop being so envious of Treehugger's success and your utter lack of it.
God bless this woman :)
The clutter the ads galore....enough said.
And the Coward speaks again.
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Your point Coward? I don't even go to my website anymore.
Eh whatever Coward, quit making this about me.
Before you side with Liz Moore automatically.She should have read what she signed.Never sign any document without reading it.I give her credit for wanting to do the right thing.
When i recently worked at a facility similar to this.My phone was held at the main entrance.It had a camera in it.Along with a camera.Many places have a policy like this.Or they outright ban cameras of any sort.They are justified in doing so.It is their property.
Satellite photos are different.You are not on their property.Or near it.You are at your computer.
Quit making this about you? YOU always make everything about you.
Treehugger rocks and you don't. Stop being an envious little wanker who just comes here to piss and moan. Go make something of yourself. Start your own organization and make the world a better place.
The world doesn't need another sideline-sitting know-it-all bitter little twit, though clearly you relish being one.
i used to live in fort mcmurray 17 years ago. Its very different now. I can understand the greed that has overcome the area, ripping up as much land as possible as fast as possible. We can only hope that the oil companies are as virtuous as they try to show on their commercials, sadly thats not the case currently.
yah thats the government for you unless we change the law it will keep ha pining to us all
You go, girl!
Was what she signed a contract?
" Perhaps the most important feature of a contract is that one party makes an offer for a bargain that another accepts. This can be called a 'concurrence of wills' or a 'meeting of the minds' of two or more parties. "
From Wikipedia.
ok, you two up there? you wanna see good web design, check out my blog! and it's even green hosted...
go little old lady go!!! good for you...
Look at the bright side - Liz Moore and her campaign got a lot of free publicity. Heavy-handed business or government tactics not only can backfire with respect to the specific issue, but can also leave them open to ridicule.
This woman ROCKS - why is it nowadays you only see older people standing up and doing what's right? Why doesn't the daycare generation get serious about the environment. They'll live with the effects of this kind of environmental destruction a lot longer than we will.
What is wrong with this anonymous person? Take a dose of your own medicine and use your anger for something more positive than ranting and raving anonymously to a captive audience. The world doesn't need another source of bad energy.
What is wrong with this anonymous person? Take a dose of your own medicine and use your anger for something more positive than ranting and raving anonymously to a captive audience. The world doesn't need another source of bad energy.
Cross dressing, Jilted?