Toxic Fuels on the Beeb

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Yesterday, Monday 26 October, BBC One screened a programme about The Co-operative’s ethical campaigning focussing on our fight against toxic fuels. 

As you know from our blog the Beaver Lake Cree who live in Alberta, Canada have seen their traditional lands degraded by large scale deforestation and pollution arising from tar sands developments. Animals, fish, plants and medicines that sustain the Cree are being destroyed, so they have launched legal action against Canadian and Albertan governments to protect their environment and traditional way of life.

The film crew visited the tar sands extraction sites in Alberta on the recent press trip led by Colin Baines, our Campaigns Adviser here at The Co-operative Financial Services. During their visit they  flew over several of the tar sands extraction sites to see the massive environmental damage being done by these developments.

 If you missed the programme you can now what it on BBC iPlayer.

Don’t for get you can also Donate to the Beaver Lake Cree and support their battle against further tar sands developments.

Please also spread the word – tell your friends, family and colleagues about this issue and help them join our fight on Twitter and Facebook too. 

Post  your comments below and let us know what you think about the campaign and the programme.

Posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 in Campaigns, Customers Who Care, Toxic Fuels

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4 Comments. What do you think?

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  1. I have just seen the programme on BBC news. Such devastation should be stopped. Please continue to help the Cree Indians.

    by Barbara at 7:21 am on December 19th, 2009

  2. Thanks Barbara for your support, don’t forget you can find out the latest in our toxic fuel campaign on our microsite. We also also follow our progress on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.

    by kedren at 12:47 pm on December 21st, 2009

  3. I feel that The Cooperative Bank should pay more attention to it’s proper business and less to supporting claptrap issues like climate change, carbon emission concerns, and such artificially boosted fallacies

    by Rod Goslin at 3:19 pm on February 19th, 2010

  4. The support the Coop is trying to give to “claptrap” issues is invaluable, with the business already being run perfectly fine – This seems a perfect time for the coop to be committing to making a differene outside of the banking/retail world..
    and possibly saving if not the world, then an immense amount of wildlife & natural environment..no biggy!

    by John Stringer at 5:05 pm on March 4th, 2010

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