This year the Edmonton Film Fest will be featuring the film H2Oil. It is a film that asks: What is more important, water or oil? Will the quest for profit overshadow efforts to protect public health and the environment in Canada's richest province?
In addition many local organizations will be co-hosting an interactive panel with the director Shannon Walsh, George Poitras of the Mikisew Cree First Nation, Eriel Deranger of the Rainforest Action Network, MacDonald Stainsby of Oil Sands Truth and Heather Milton Lightning of the Indigenous Environmental Network.
The plenary will address the issues raised by the
film screening H2Oil. Speakers will address the impacts of tar sands
development, talk about organizing strategies to slow and stop the Tar Sands,
and give informational perspectives to the film based on their first hand
experiences.
Where: University of Alberta – TELUS Centre 150 (see map)
What: Follow-up
Interactive Panel to EIFF showings of H2Oil
When: October
1st at 6:30pm
Why: Because we
need to understand the impacts Tar Sand developments are having on surrounding
communities and start organizing to take action now!
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The Panel is sponsored by:
| H2Oil | Council of Canadians | Greenpeace |
| Indigenous Environmental Network | Sierra Club Prairie | Rainforest Action Network |
| APIRG |
Alberta Environment Network | Public Interest Alberta |