Alberta activists march in New York

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, a Dene Indigenous activist and member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation; Crystal Lameman, a member of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation and Sierra Club Climate and Energy Campaigner; and Melina Laboucan-Massimo, a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation and a Climate and Energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada; were in New York City on Sept. 21 for the largest demonstration for climate action in history. The Alberta delegation marched with the “Tar Sands Bloc,” dedicated to voicing their opposition to the expansion of dirty, carbon-intensive tar sands and calling for a moratorium on dangerous tar sands projects. “It is not morally acceptable to sacrifice communities to feed our addiction to oil. Instead we need to see real solutions and action on climate change. We want world leaders to know that we will not stop fighting until we’ve stopped tar sands at the source,” said Laboucan-Massimo in a news release.