Canada must consider how the oilsands in the Canadian province of Alberta contribute to global climate change and make moves to cut its carbon emissions before it’s too late, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu told reporters in the northern city of Fort McMurray.
“Only those who don’t want to listen, only those who want to be blind can’t see that we are sitting on a powderkeg,” he said Friday (May 30). “If we don’t do something urgently, quickly, we won’t have a world.”
Archbishop Tutu is in the northern Alberta city for a two-day conference on oilsands development and aboriginal treaties, hosted by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and titled “As Long as the Rivers Flow: Coming Back to the Treaty Relationship in Our Time”.
More information:
CBC News – Desmond Tutu urges Canada to address climate change ‘powderkeg’ – here
Toronto Star – Oilsands: Desmond Tutu stresses quick action against controversial project – here
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