One in six of the 100 billion soda, beer and juice cans we use each year owe their existence to Alberta’s tar sands. The result is an environmental disaster.
Koch Industries processes one in four barrels of U.S.-bound Alberta tar sand, while pumping millions of dollars into highly conservative, anti-green causes.
What will happen on downtown streets when home-grown activists, civil society crusaders, out-of-town idealists and native naysayers meet $900 million worth of security?
This February, get ready for a 21st century Olympics, where the big corporate spending battles could overshadow the rivalries of the ice rink and ski slope.
