The Program on
Water Issues
at the Munk Centre
for International Studies, University of Toronto
invites you to attend
an upcoming conference
How
the Oil Sands Got to the Great
Lakes Basin:
Pipelines,
Refineries and Emissions to Air and Water
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Join the
live web cast now ate www.powi.ca
http://hosting.epresence.tv/munk/website_live.aspx?c=1
9:00 am to 4:30 pm
EDT
Vivian and David
Campbell Conference Centre
Munk Centre for International
Studies at the University
of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario,
M5S 3K7
(Registration 8:30
am. Light refreshments and lunch provided.)
Refineries in the Great Lakes Basin are rapidly expanding to accommodate crude oil
from the Alberta
oil sands. This conference, How the Oil
Sands Got to the Great Lakes Basin: Pipelines, Refineries and Emissions to Air
And Water, is intended to provide an opportunity, in a
university setting, to inform public opinion about the impacts of refinery expansion
in the Basin, drawing on data analysis, shared information and public
discussion. Emphasis will be placed on the cumulative effect of refinery
expansions on water quality, air quality and human and non-human downwind
communities in the Basin. The conference will provide a bilateral opportunity
for interactive public comment and dialogue from experts involved in a wide
range of disciplines.
The conference will begin with a presentation of the conference paper by the
author, journalist David Israelson. Panel members representing government,
environmental sciences, law, non-government organizations, academia, industry
and the business community will share points of view on issues relating to the
refinery expansion.
The discussion will be web cast live
and a record of the conference proceedings, including questions and answers,
will be uploaded to the Program on Water Issues web site www.powi.ca <http://www.powi.ca> following the event.