Breaking Ground: Women, Oil & Climate Change: Delegation to
Highlight Tar Sands Impact on Women

Delegation led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams
kicks off Tuesday on Northern Gateway Pipeline tour

By Common Dreams staff

October 9, 2012
Common Dreams

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/09-11

To highlight the consequences of the tar sands' impacts on
women and their communities, a delegation led by 1997 Nobel
Peace Prize winner Jody Williams begins Tuesday, touring the
proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline route through Alberta and
British Colombia.

The Breaking Ground: Women, Oil & Climate Change delegation
from the Nobel Women's Initiative aims to show the
"perspectives rarely taken into account by decision makers"
by gathering and amplyifying the voices of women who will
suffer from tar sands and climate change impacts.

"As peacebuilders and community leaders, women around the
world have been at the forefront of movements to reduce the
impacts of climate change and build healthy, sustainable
environments," the group writes.

Describing the importance of the campaign, Williams says that
"while people look at environmental issues, people look at
climate change... very few look at it from the perspective of
women. And unfortunately, like in too many situations of
crisis around the world, the women and their children are the
ones who suffer the most when their environment is
destroyed."

To read more, go to 
http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/our-blogs/breaking-ground-women-oil-climate-change/

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