So YouTube has approved Sophie’s Video with full audio. Sophie, a Grade Seven student, put the video together showing shots of the Pekisko and Kananaskis areas along the Southeastern Slopes of Alberta in response to a presentation made by her father, Curtis, to her class. The video shows the beauty of the region where Petro-Canada wants to put a pipeline and the ugly downside of industrial activity in areas nearby.

You may or may not remember that YouTube removed the audio when we first posted it in January because we didn’t have Joni Mitchell’s approval. Well, it took a while, but we got it! Joni saw the video and approved Sophie’s use of her music on the video – for free. We looove Joni Mitchell!

So here’s the video with sound!

WOOT!

So we are in the midst of trying to get Sophie’s video back up on YouTube with full audio. The video is currently in dispute representation with the YouTube copyright team. Hopefully this time we are able to get it all sorted out and up on YouTube with full original audio.

So far we have been able to get permission from Joni Mitchel and her agent to use part of her song ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ as the background audio track for the video. It also contains the sounds of gas pipeline compression stations and various oil and gas industrial installations. We are hoping that we will be able to get the audio passed through YouTube, finally, and get things going.

Over the weekend we were able to pass the 100 members line on our Facebook group! Thanks to everyone who has been forwarding on the group and to those who have joined. Our next target is to get past the 250 members line, we are currently at 110 people, so we need to get as many people as we can right now. If you know someone interested in joining up, or if you are interested yourself, just head on over to our Facebook Group and join up.

Thanks to everyone who has helped push our group forward, slowly but surely!

So our developers over at StormCode took a moment to upgrade our petition page. Once you have sent in your petition, it sends you to a forward page where you can pass the petition on to your friends, automatically, from the Petrocant website, no fuss no muss.

Easy as key lime pie.

For those who’ve sent a message to Alberta politicians already, feel free to do so again and pass on the petition to others. We’ve made it even easier to do so.

If you are just looking to forward the petition on, and not resign it, you can do that on the new forwarding page. Tell your friends, family, kids, grandkids, pets, and anyone else able to sign a petition. We are so close to 1000 messages sent, we only need 150 more or so and we can break that milestone!