Check this out. The video above is a live feed from a tar sands facility in Canada, where Greenpeace teams are shutting down a conveyor belt and blocking a bridge. It just started in the last half hour so details on this side of the Atlantic are scant, but keep an eye on the live feeds from the two locations (location one here, location two here) and keep up with the #stoptarsands tag on Twitter, helpfully Scribbled below.
Update: More on the action - the facility in on the Athabasca river north of Fort McMurray in Alberta, owned by Suncor Energy, Canada's largest energy company. The activists are an international bunch, hailing from France, Germany, Brazil and of course Canada, and as well as the conveyor belt, they've floated a banner on the river itself.
This all comes just two weeks after the previous action at Shell's Albian Sands complex, also in Alberta. Plus you can find out more about the problem with tar sands.
