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RAN Gets To Maybe With RBC

By Morey Burnham

Friday, February 19, 2010

From the Rainforest Action Network's blog, Understory: "After a year of campaigning, this afternoon RBC and RAN finally sat opposite the same table to talk tar sands."
In RBC’s corner was COO Barbara Stymiest joined by Sandra Odendahl and Shari Austin. We correspond with Sandra and Shari pretty regularly. Barbara was a new contact. She’s one of nine members of RBC’s “Group Executive” responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of the bank.
Weighing in for RAN was Acting Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton joined by Eriel Deranger and me. Our aim was to learn whether RBC is ready to begin putting its money where its mouth is on Indigenous rights, water quality and climate change by scaling back its financing in Canada’s tar sands.

  • Read RAN’s blog post about the meeting here

  • For background on the meeting, read this RAN blog post

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