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Dear, ____

The Beaver Lake Cree Nation is taking on the oil sands – Canada’s fastest growing source of climate pollution. Already the largest industrial project on Earth, oil sands extraction has poisoned water, eliminated whole forests, and decimated traditional food sources.

Our movement has real power: by standing together with Indigenous Peoples we’ve stopped tar sands pipelines, held back open pit mining, and defended vast landscapes from industrial development.

To stop the oil sands, we need everybody.

There is no alliance that’s stronger than the movement we are building. It’s time to join forces to protect the environment, climate, and Indigenous People’s right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent.

The case could set the most powerful precedent ever in Canadian court. Stand with the Beaver Lake Cree in this historic, precedent-setting case. Your support is vital.

Onwards,

(YOUR NAME)

1. Canada is home to one of the world’s largest and dirtiest oil reserves – the Alberta oil sands. Oil sands extraction has poisoned water, land, and decimated traditional food sources for the Beaver Lake Cree people. Donate to their legal fees at raventrust.com/defend-the-treaties #BLCNStrong.
2. The fight to contain the oil sands and forge a path that respects Indigenous rights is the fight of a generation. Donate to Beaver Lake Cree’s legal challenges at raventrust.com/defend-the-treaties #BLCNStrong

1. Beaver Lake Cree’s homeland has been scarred and polluted by numerous in-situ oil sands projects. Oil and gas wells and infrastructure have displaced moose and elk. Oil sands effluent has polluted the water. Caribou may be driven to extinction in this region within 10 years. However, it’s not too late. The Beaver Cree have not only endured and survived, they are envisioning and proactively building a very different future for their land and their community. Donate to their legal challenges at raventrust.com/defend-the-treaties #BLCNStrong

2. Beaver Lake Cree Nation is taking Alberta and Canada to court in the precedent setting Defend the Treaties trial. The Beaver Lake Cree have been pursuing this case for ten solid years because they know the case will be a gamechanger for Indigenous rights and environmental protection.The Defend the Treaties Trial would place limits on rampant fossil fuel development based on the commitment, enshrined in Treaty 6, that Indigenous Peoples should be able to hunt, fish, and practice their traditions “as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow.” Donate to their legal challenges at raventrust.com/defend-the-treaties #BLCNStrong #defendthetreaties

❗CALL TO ACTION ❗
Beaver Lake Cree Nation is taking Alberta and Canada to court, and need your support!

Canada is home to one of the world’s largest and dirtiest oil reserves – the Alberta oil sands. Scientists have warned that continuing to rely on oil sands would mean “game over” for the climate, triggering the melt-off of Antarctic ice and other tipping points. Climate change would then become unstoppable.

Oil sands operations are the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, and the industry’s share of national emissions is expected to double between 2010 and 2030.

Donate at raventrust.com/defend-the-treaties, and support Beaver Lake Cree as they defend their land, air, waters, culture and our planet from extractive industries. 

#BLCNStrong #DefendTheTreaties