Separating Oil and State

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/21-7

The Alberta tar sands are not called a giga project for no reason.

Their reach extends far beyond a Florida-sized deposit in northern Alberta and inhabit a spider web-like network of expansion pipelines across Canada and the United states. Add this to a transcontinental supply chain for materials and a global financing system and the result is pillars of this system that can be found around the globe.

It should come as no surprise that both Occupy Edmonton and Occupy Calgary are overlooked by head offices of some of the most largest players in the tar sands game. Local organizers are already well tuned to the fact that in the shadows of skyscrapers emblazoned with 'Enbridge,' corporate greed is synonymous with Canada's bitumen merchants.

As one slogan from Occupy Edmonton so concisely tells it, "Just because oil runs your car doesn't mean it needs to run your government." But other camps also lie a stone's throw from lynch pins in this system. Here are two:

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