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Canada: gagging on oil

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To Mattawa City Council and TransCanada:

As citizens supportive of free speech and dedicated to ensuring Canada’s environment is protected, we urge you to amend your recent Partnership Agreement to remove the clause barring the town from commenting on TransCanada’s operations or projects. TransCanada should never put silencing clauses into contracts with governments, and should disclose all other contracts where they have been included.
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Canada: gagging on oil

Pipeline giant TransCanada just secured an entire town's silence with a $30,000 "gift" -- preventing the town council from speaking out about a dangerous new tar sands pipe. But a massive uproar can still kill this dirty deal and win back the town’s voice.

Giant oil companies are fighting hard to snake these tar sands pipelines across our country -- and deals like this let them plow through without resistance. But now the company is on the defensive and says that they will cut out the silencing clause “if necessary”. On Monday, Mattawa’s town council will meet and have the chance to demand they to do just that.

It isn’t easy to stand up to a huge corporation, but the small Ontario town of Mattawa can do it. We only have days to act! Click to sign the petition, and Avaaz will deliver it straight to the city council meeting.

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