Our Water Is Not For Sale
Water is essential to all life and should be recognized as a human right and protected and prioritized for basic human needs and for the ecosystems on which our survival depends.
The Government of Alberta, however, is poised to make major irreversible changes to how we allocate water throughout Alberta. Their plan would create a deregulated market system that will give control of our water to a few who would profit by selling something they got for free. We are calling on the government, instead, to establish a system that respects treaty rights and puts the needs of people, our communities, and the environment first.
Visit the Our Water Is Not For Sale website for information and resources on water markets and the campaign to protect this priceless resource that is essential to each of our lives. |
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Public Interest Alberta is active in and was central to establishing Our Water Is Not For Sale, a broad network of organizations and individuals working to protect Alberta's water, including members of the faith community, farmers, municipalities, First Nations, environmental organizations, unions, and more. Please join us by signing our open letter, speaking against plans to establish a system that would sell off our water to the highest bidder.
World Water Week
From March 22 - 25, 2010, World Water Week addressed important issues around water, the source of all life. The week was organized by student advocates with the support of: Council of Canadians, Alberta Public Interest Research Group, Greenpeace on Campus, and Public Interest Alberta
Through film screenings, discussions, expert panels and a workshop, World Water Week explored issues of water scarcity, privatization, contamination and commodification.
Click here for the full program
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Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World
Dr. Andrew Weaver
In November 2008, PIA's Environment Task Force co-sponsored a lecture series featuring Dr. Weaver and his new book, which took place in Edmonton, Calgary and Lethbridge.
Dr. Andrew Weaver is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modeling and Analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria. He was lead author in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change and is currently the chief editor of the Journal of Climate. He was nominated along with Al Gore for the Nobel Prize and is the author of the recently released book, Keeping Our Cool.
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Keeping Our Cool
Monster wildfires in Australia, January golfers in PEI, ruined fruit crops in California, snowless ski runs in Switzerland, starving polar bears in the North, devastated trees in Stanley Park. Climate change is no longer a vague threat. The climate change we are in store for over the next few centuries will be larger and occur faster than at any time in the last 10,000 years.
Brilliantly researched, Keeping Our Cool is a comprehensive and engaging examination and explanation of global warming, with a specific emphasis on climate change in Canada. In an engaging and accessible way, Weaver explains the levels of greenhouse gas emissions needed to stabilize the climate and offers solutions and a path toward a sustainable future.
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Book Launch - Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent by Andrew Nikiforuk
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Public Interest Alberta's Environment Task Force co-sponsored the Edmonton launch of the new book by Andrew Nikiforuk on November 3, 2008.
Other sponsored events
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Who Decides Our Energy Future?
Alberta's energy future is a question of growing concern and public interest. With royalty rates being debated, the rapid expansion of the tar sands, continued destruction of our natural landscape and the negative impacts of the booming economy, Albertans are asking where our energy future is headed.
Public Interest Alberta's Environment Task Force is working with member organizations and concerned citizens to expand the debate on who decides our energy future and advocate for a policies that put the interests of our citizens and our environment first.
Learn more about the environmental, economic and social implications of Alberta's energy sector by visiting these links to our Environment Task Force members and other active organizations.
Alberta Federation of Labour
Council of Canadians – Energy Campaign
Greenpeace
Parkland Institute
Pembina Institute - Oil Sands Watch
Polaris Institute - Tar Sands Watch
Sierra Club of Canada - Tar Sands Time Out
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