Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign

Formerly a project of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), based in the United States, the Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign (ITS) joined the Polaris Institute office in Ottawa in January 2013. ITS is a program that works in the area of environmental justice for First Nation communities, and supports Indigenous communities taking on extractive industries.

Recent News

New Year, New Beginnings

It is with great pleasure that we announce the launching of the new Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign (ITSC). Since its inception, the ITSC has been a project of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) based in the United States, and we have enjoyed working with IEN while the program has grown and developed. However, given the realities of organizing in Canada we have decided that this campaign needs to be based in Canada with a Canadian fiscal sponsor to help administer the program and help ensure its financial viability and management needs.