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On International Fossil Fools Day on April 1st...

Bike to Fight the Pipe!
Montreal Fights Back Against Dirty Oil Fueling the Climate Crisis

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Bike Bloc to the Petro-Canada/Suncor Oil Refinery in East Montreal
April 1, 2010
Departure: 10:45 a.m. Dominion Square
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See the route plan here, we will assemble at Dominion Square (Corner of Peel and Rene Levesque) with groups leaving Dawson, Concordia, and McGill at between 10:00 and10:30 and UQAM at 11:00 along the way.


The Alberta Tar Sands are heading for Montreal. The east end of Montreal has become another target for the largest industrial project on the planet via the Enbridge Trailbreaker Pipeline. The pipeline's veins are spreading from the beating heart of Canada's dirty oil problem, placing all of us downstream from the destruction.


The Tar Sands are cannibalizing water, earth and forest to produce the dirtiest oil on the planet, bringing the world towards a climate tipping point as Canada's largest single point greenhouse gas emitter. The project which is poisoning the people of Fort Chipewyan, tearing the social fabric of local communities and running a temporary foreign worker program that exploits migrant labour to keep the world addicted to oill.


This pipeline could bring 200,000 barrels of crude, bitumen sludge through Montreal every day, with 40,000 barrels to be upgraded and processed right here on the Island! Petro-Canada/Suncor, the SAME corporations responsible for fueling the global climate crisis, want to bring the flow of destruction to their refinery in east Montreal, and add to the
toxic legacy of massive industrial machinery which emits toxic fumes, poisons water, creates harmful synthetic chemicals such as paraxylene, benzene and toluene, and has little in the way of social services, nature, and community life.


Ride and stand in solidarity with people on frontline communities everywhere - including our own backyard - and join the fight for Climate Justice in Montreal on April 1st
Let the world know that we say:
- NO to this pipeline to bring blood oil to this refinery
- NO to creating a toxic sacrifice zone the size of Florida in Alberta
- NO to burning our future with dirty fossil fuels
- NO to destroying the Athabasca watershed
- NO to exploitative temporary foreign worker programs
- NO to poisoning downstream Indigenous communities
- NO TO THE TAR SANDS IN MONTREAL!


We will be leaving from the Dominion Square at 10:45 a.m. to set off on a critical mass bike bloc, using clean, green people-power all the way down Sherbrooke to ground zero of the Tar Sands in Montreal: the Petro Canada/Suncor Refinery (11675 Rue Sherbrooke Est).


Groups will be leaving from UDM, Dawson, Concordia, and McGill between 10:00 and 10:30, and we will be making our way past UQAM around 11:00 contact your local rep for more information:
Alex Oster (Concordia): aoster@csu.qc.ca
(Dawson): arielcharney@hotmail.com
Maggie Knight/Toby Davine: environment.ssmu@gmail.com
Julien Drouin-Bouffard (UQAM) : bigaju07@hotmail.com


All told, it is approximately 1.5 hours from UdeM to the East Island, and approximately 50 minutes from downtown. Check out the route plan!
For more information, to volunteer some time to help organize, or to endorse this action as an organization contact us at climateactionmtl@gmail.com
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