Stop the Tar Sands

Royal Bank of Canada targetted as Climate Change Criminal

RBC is Canada’s largest bank and a premier sponsor of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
RBC is also Canada’s largest financier of the Alberta Tar Sands - one of the most environmentally destructive projects on earth.

Find out about AW@L's Protest against RBC on the Global Day of Action against Climate Change and Fighting Back against Corporate Greenwashing

RAN has started a campaign against RBC and the Tar Sands as part of their larger Freedom from Oil and Global Finance campaigns.

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Suncor and SPP Targeted by Climate Change Containment Unit (CCCU)

August 7, 2008 - Members of AW@L's CCCU Shut Down Local Sunoco Gas Station for their role in the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and continued Environmental Destruction from the Alberta Tar Sands. Read More.

AW@L Shuts Down Shell on Fossil Fool's Day

April, 2008 - “Just before rush hour today, student and community activists from AntiWar@Laurier (AW@L) blockaded the Shell gas station at the corner of Westmount Road North and Father David Bauer Drive. AW@L’s “Climate Change Containment Unit” deployed to address the gross violation of the environment constituted by the planned increase in production of the Albertan oil sands, by shutting down Shell’s primary outlet in Waterloo. Shell is a leading offender with regard to profiteering from climate change causing activities, especially in the tar sands.

The Containment Unit wrapped up the gas pumps with caution tape and a crowd of activists that included, in addition to established AW@L members, a group of students from Fanshaw College in London, blocked driveways with large banners reading: “Stop Fueling War and Climate Change,” “No Tomfuelery, No Tar Sands,” and “No War, No Warming.”
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RAN's Freedom from Oil campaign.