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	<description>The Bike Trip from US/Alberta Border to the Tar Sands.</description>
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		<title>On The Road Again: TTTS announces book and film tour</title>
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The first To The Tar Sands bike trip of 2007 was designed as a fact finding mission, a story telling adventure like no other. The culmination of that trip is the recent release of a book entitled Journey To The Tar Sands and a documentary film called simply To The Tar Sands. 
Come January, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/12/04/on-the-road-again-ttts-announces-book-and-film-tour/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s almost over. It&#8217;s only just begun.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re about to leave Red Deer and tonight will be our last night on the road. It&#8217;s gone by so fast.
After Edmonton we stayed with Richard and Linda McKelvie in their amazing home in Ponoka. They are an example of what we need to see more of as we enter such an uncertain future. Their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/08/27/its-almost-over-its-only-just-begun/</link>
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		<title>Watch This!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of our actions this last week in Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan&#8230;
Protest outside Stelmach&#8217;s office
Guerilla Tar Sands Theatre at the Fringe
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		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/08/26/watch-this/</link>
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		<title>Check out this slideshow</title>
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This is a slideshow taken from our flight from Fort Chipewyan to Fort McMurray. It shows the incredible beauty of the Athabasca Delta and the growing devastation of the tar sands.
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		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/08/24/check-out-this-slideshow/</link>
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		<title>The Potato as Canadian Energy Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AfterÂ three days bikingÂ in the northern woodlands, many mosquito and spider bites later,Â sweat-stained andÂ withÂ berry spots still on our palms,Â we have arrived in lovely Lac La Biche.Â  This place is a seeming pastoral paradise&#8211;sheep and cattleÂ loose in theÂ green,Â round hay-balesÂ on the rolling hills,Â Saskatoon berries and rose hips along theÂ grill of aspen, theÂ edge betweenÂ the inner, blacker forest and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/08/21/the-potato-as-canadian-energy-policy/</link>
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		<title>On the road again &#8230;. Notes of an old youth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted by J.D.
In the last three days we&#8217;ve covered about 285km from Ft McMurray to Lac La Biche. Everyone is doing very well energy-wise on their bikes with only minor quibbles about funny noises but no flats or other breakdowns. Too bad we can&#8217;t say the same about our poor van. The battery isn&#8217;t charging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/08/21/on-the-road-again-notes-of-an-old-youth/</link>
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		<title>Media Hits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Links to some of the newspaper articles about the tripÂ - if you find more, please forward them here!
Red Deer Express
http://www.reddeerexpress.com/express/edition02/news-004.html
Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=6529b34e-93be-45c3-aae5-82f25e65ac08&#38;k=84683
CBC
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/08/12/edm-oilsands-trek.html
Fort McMurray Today
http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1157354
Vue Weekly Edmonton
http://www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=9372
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		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/08/21/media-hits/</link>
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		<title>Fort Chipewyan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Dispatch by J.D.)
I&#8217;m in northern Alberta in Fort Chipewyan attending theÂ Keepers of the Water conference on how theÂ  the water, wildlife, and aboriginal communities are being harmedÂ downstream from Canada&#8217;s great environmental crime scene, the tar sands (the linked article is particularly good)
It&#8217;s amazing to be in such aÂ strong communityÂ that is fighting for its life. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/08/18/fort-chipewyan/</link>
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		<title>Keepers of the Water III Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the stops we hope to be making on our journey this summer is the Keepers of the Water III Conference, to be held in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, from August 13th -17th. Fort Chipewyan is a First Nations community of just over a thousand people, situated along the northwestern banks of Lake Athabasca.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/07/30/keepers-of-the-water-iii-conference/</link>
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		<title>The Principles of Environmental Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Environmental Justice is an emerging approach to activism that recognizes the interdependence of all life, and the connections between different kinds of oppressions. We are embarking on our journey in the spirit of solidarity, and with a grounding in the principles of environmental justice. Here they are, as written by the People of Color Environmental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothetarsands.ca/2008/07/07/the-principles-of-environmental-justice/</link>
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