Make Suncor Clean up Half-a-Billion Litres of Poisonous Tailings Sludge. PLEASE SIGN PETITION!

There are 1.2 TRILLION litres of toxic tailings pond sludge in Alberta. And one tar sands corporation is trying to postpone its share of the clean-up until 2085. We are going to stop this.  Tell Suncor its tailings mess can't wait 70 more years. Clean it up now. SIGN THE PETITION Larry, Right now, the biggest company in the Alberta tar sands is trying to rewrite the rules of how big oil is going to have to deal with toxic tailings waste. Suncor is trying to get the Alberta government to allow it to wait to clean up its tailings until 2085. But it gets worse. Suncor's strategy to "clean up" literally 525 billion litres of poisonous tailings sludge involves dumping it into a hole and capping it with water. That's it.This half-baked plan is nothing more than Suncor’s thinly veiled excuse to avoid cleaning up the after-party of a 50-year fossil fuel extraction binge fest. We have zero guarantees that corporations like Suncor will even be around in three-quarters of a century -- let alone have the resources or motivation to clean their messes up. Tell Suncor to stop playing games and clean up its mess now. There are now more than 1.2 trillion litres of tar sands tailings fluids sitting in open ponds and leaching toxic chemicals into the environment of northern Alberta. They remain the biggest logistical and environmental challenge of bitumen mining. Indigenous Peoples, environmentalists, and residents have always feared that the long-term plan is to simply delay cleaning them up until every last drop of carbon has been sucked out of the earth and the tar sands corporations can leave the mess for communities and taxpayers to deal with. And if Suncor gets its way, this is exactly what will happen. Suncor and the Alberta government start meetings in days to try and finalize this flawed tailings strategy -- and that means we don't have long to act.  Tell Suncor it needs to take responsibility and clean up its toxic tailings mess. If there’s one company in the tar sands that knows what SumOfUs members like you are capable of, it’s Suncor. You fought hard when it tried to lobby to drain the Athabasca River dry. Tens of thousands of you hit back and earned SumOfUs a seat at the negotiating table. Thanks to SumOfUs members like you, we filed a shareholder resolution that received the biggest vote share of its kind in Canadian history — and eventually Suncor agreed to start disclosing its lobbying practices. Against all odds, you've held the biggest corporation in the tar sands to account — and we need to do it again. It’s not just Suncor that’s angling to avoid taking responsibility for its tailings waste. If Suncor gets away with putting off clean-up, every other tar sands company will, too. Let’s stand up to the tar sands. Demand Suncor starts cleaning up its tailings mess now. Thanks for all that you do, Emma, Michael, Liz and the rest of the SumOfUs team More information:  No Sure Plans, Funding for $51 Billion Cleanup and Rehabilitation of Oilsands Tailings Ponds, DeSmog Canada, June 28, 2017 Suncor tailings ponds clean-up under reconsideration by regulators, BNN, May 25, 2017 SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we’re not afraid to stand up to them when they don’t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in CA$3 or become a SumOfUs core member with a regular monthly donation. Set up a monthly donation Chip in CA$3 instead This email was sent to planetwatch1@yahoo.ca. | Unsubscribe