Extreme Energy As Genocidal Method  Tar Sands and the Indigenous Peoples of Northern Alberta   Extreme Energy Initiative 5mar13  http://extremeenergy.org/2013/03/05/extreme-energy-as-genocidal-method-tar-sands-and-the-indigenous-peoples-of-northern-alberta/

No Tar Sands   UK Tar Sands Network    Get the (S)Hell out of the Tar Sands http://www.no-tar-sands.org/campaigns/get-the-shell-out-of-the-tar-sands/

(2) HumanRightsUniLondon (HRC_News) on Twitter https://twitter.com/HRC_News

Opinion_Nov11 http://www.commonwealthadvisorybureau.org/fileadmin/CPSU/documents/Publications/Opinion_Nov11.pdf

 http://www.no-tar-sands.org/2013/05/indigenous-communities-oppose-extreme-energy-at-shells-agm/

David Suzuki: ‘Does Nature Belong in Canada's Charter?’ 16jan13 http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-suzuki/david-suzuki_b_2482517.html D.S. writes:“Getting the right to a healthy environment enshrined in Canada's Constitution won't be easy. We're headed in the opposite direction, with environmental protections and laws being rolled back or gutted, mostly in the name of keeping us tied to a resource-extraction economy [such as tar sands]. And despite our country's abundant water, many people, especially in First Nations communities, don't have access to clean drinking water.” []= my addition - taking from text elsewhere in the article.

But you as indigenous peoples have rights over that land…

The other point is that as indigenous peoples we are nations, in a country called Canada, and we have agreements with the Crown, with the British crown. I have a copy, for example, of treaty number 11 which happened in June of 1921 and this treaty is between our people, the Dene, and King George V. The agreement that we have with the Crown supersedes the authority that the federal government in Canada has or the provincial government. And we took these treaties to court.

The other treaty that we’re a part of, which is right where the tar sands are, is treaty number eight. We proved in court that these are peace and friendship instruments. They are international instruments. They perpetuate the right that we’ve always had. In other words, as people that were never conquered or never defeated in war, the resource belongs to us. So the oil actually belongs to our people.

I live approximately 800-900 miles north of where it’s extracted and so we’re downstream. I’m a member of the Yellow Knife Dene, which is the tribe that I’m a part of, but the toxins and the destruction that I talked about occur all the way down the Mackenzie valley and into the Beaufort Sea and then going into the circumpolar world. So this is a global issue, that global waters are being polluted. So this is an international issue that Canada needs to address. So we bring this to the world.