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Yesterday most of Hollywood picked up the Oscars edition of Variety expecting to see the usual ads sponsored by film production companies, explaining why their film or producer or actor should win the statue - and instead they got campaigned:
The ad space was purchased by a long list of Canadian and American environmental organizations - including Greenpeace Canada - that have been running a long campaign against the extraction of dirty tar sands oil in Northern Alberta. (To see a full list of the organizations involved, and the original ad - please visit dirtyoilsands.org.)
Greenpeace activists have experienced the conditions inside the tar sands mining facilities (which so closely resemble those in Avatar) first-hand. They spent over thirty hours occupying an open pit mining site in September of last year - note the size of the trucks compared to our activists in orange:
The Oscars are this Sunday, March 7th - our vote is in, what about yours?
Comments
avatar is amazing film best ever and we need to learn from it changing the way we treat the planet in harmoney with nature istead of destroying it for short term greed big oil and so on. we all need to tell our goverments to make the huge changes needed now 2010 the year of biodiversity
Posted by: carl holmes | March 5, 2010 10:24 PM
STOP THIS RIGHT NOW FOR BETTER FUTURE CLEAN ENERGY , THANKS
Posted by: Vicente | March 7, 2010 7:39 PM
The case is simple. Avatar, the corps and military industrial comp loose, the planet wins. Hurt jungle corps + military win, so they win the Oscar, planet, what planet ? Want another bet ?
Posted by: Jane | March 9, 2010 1:09 AM
Clean energy 4 ever
Posted by: Georges Saad ((AbouJreige)) | March 10, 2010 3:06 PM
It's all about Oil, Money and Power! This is it.
Great time for environmental projects like ECOSIGNAL or non-profit organizations like David Suzuky Foundation.
Dragos Parausanu-Sprinceana
Posted by: ROKOIL | March 12, 2010 5:52 AM
The Tar Sands is going full tilt and seems to be picking up speed. The worlds dirtiest project just keeps getting larger and larger.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/bp-buys-into-oil-sands-project/article1501163/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/devon-and-bp-team-up-on-oil-sands-revival/article1497941/
Posted by: Dirty Oil | March 15, 2010 8:44 PM
Avatar is a great movie, I was move to tears when I first saw it...we as a civilization need to wake up and change, dramatically, if we want to save our planet and our selfs...full support for greenpeace
Posted by: Ivan Malagurski | March 28, 2010 3:10 PM