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Greenpeace protests Canada's oil sands

This handout photo released by Greenpeace on September 30, 2009 shows Greenpeace activists deploying a floating banner reading "Dying for Climate Leadership" on the Athabasca river between a Suncor upgrader and mining site in the heart of the Canadian tar sands. According to Greenpeace, Tar sands oil is the dirtiest on the planet, emitting 3-5 times the emissions of conventional oil in production alone. Photo courtesy AFP.
by Staff Writers
 Ottawa (AFP) Sept 30, 2009
 Activists on Wednesday occupied two conveyor belts used to transfer bitumen from an open pit mine to a processing plant, demanding the closure of Canada's vast oil sands.

Greenpeace members from Canada, France, Germany and Brazil occupied the site owned by Canadian oil giant Suncor, the second-biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the oil sands, to denounce their exploitation as a "climate crime."

"The continued development of the tar sands threatens to derail international climate action and must be abandoned," Greenpeace said in a statement.

Reached by phone, one of 23 activists said Suncor security did not intervene to stop the protest.

Their sit-in comes two weeks after Greenpeace briefly stopped operations at a nearby Shell oil sands mine.

At an estimated 175 billion barrels, Alberta's oil sands are the second largest oil reserve in the world behind Saudi Arabia, but they were neglected for years, except by local companies, because of high extraction costs.

Since 2000, skyrocketing crude oil prices and improved extraction methods have made exploitation more economical, and have lured several multinational oil companies to mine the sands.

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