Dave Vasey

Lest We Forget: Tar Sands and War

Dave Vasey / November 11, 2015 / 5 min read

Lest we forget, the tar sands fuel war. Since the creation of the first tar sands operations, the nation-state of Canada viewed bitumen as part of its military strategy. During the cold war, Pierre Trudeau brought tar sands plants online to help provide ‘energy security’ to North America. Over the past decade, Canada has been a war profiteer and fuel tank for the US military, who have killed well over a million people since the turn of the new millennium.

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