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Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental Justice

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

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In Chapter 13 Toban Black critically examines the conference titled “Bitumen—Adding Value: Canada’s National Opportunity” in May of 2013, discussing potential tar sands projects in Ontario, Canada’s vision for industrial expansion, the protests the conference received, environmental racism, Canada’s chemical industry and Chemical Valley, and local resistance in Sarnia, Ontario.

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Toban Black

Toban Black is a community organizer and an associate editor for Upping the Anti. As an activist, he has focused on extreme energy projects and community-based alternatives.