Legal Niches

Activists Launch Game against Tar Sands Development

By pete_gallagher

A group against the development of Canada's oil-rich Tar Sands is attempting to draw attention to their stance through the release of a simple online Flash game.

Thought up by the Polaris Institute and created by Insidious Design, the game, named Tarnation, lets players shoot oil at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper  and Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff. Once the pair has been doused with enough light, sweet crude, players can sign their name to an email to the two pols, which states that 'The tar sands represent the wrong direction for Canada.'

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).