2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver: Green Games are really a Greenwash

Despite promises that the 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be ?the greenest games ever,? major environmental justice organizations and representatives from impacted communities in Western Canada say they have major concerns related to the direct environmental impacts of the games in BC, the environmental records of the Game?s host governments, and the environmental practices of a number of the Game?s high-profile corporate sponsors, most notably those involved in extraction and transportation of tar sands bitumen from northern Alberta.