JUPITERASC
Well-known member
For thousands of years the Dene Nation have occupied land downstream of Alberta's tar sands aka oil sands. Their Leader said: “What you do with your money is your business - but when you begin to spend your money in my territory in a way that disrupts and destroys our way of life and our civilisation then that becomes my business. The water, the air, the medicines, the plants, the buffalo have – until now - sustained our way of life for thousands and thousands of years”
The National Geographic Magazine's three-page aerial spread of pristine arboreal forest dotted with lakes beaming a luminescent robin-egg blue through the trees is the “before” picture. Flip over the fold-out and the reader is confronted by the “after” photo, a ground zero of environmental devastation, the tar ponds in all their toxic duck-killing glory, the gouging out of oozing craters visible from space, the inexplicably discoloured fish, the workforce crush and an opinionated narrative documenting the “riveting sight” of the area’s “dark satanic mills” that discharge chemicals that “sting your lungs when you get close enough” with sickly grey ponds bisected by slick roadways prowled by mammoth trucks carrying black gold. http://www.deadducklake.com/?p=58
A pristine wilderness and a Native people are being wiped out to feed the world's hunger for energy, but what no one expected was for them to fight back but, with the help of Dr David Schindler professor of ecology university of Alberta – they are taking action and challenging the oil producing nations - reminding them of environmental commitments
The National Geographic Magazine's three-page aerial spread of pristine arboreal forest dotted with lakes beaming a luminescent robin-egg blue through the trees is the “before” picture. Flip over the fold-out and the reader is confronted by the “after” photo, a ground zero of environmental devastation, the tar ponds in all their toxic duck-killing glory, the gouging out of oozing craters visible from space, the inexplicably discoloured fish, the workforce crush and an opinionated narrative documenting the “riveting sight” of the area’s “dark satanic mills” that discharge chemicals that “sting your lungs when you get close enough” with sickly grey ponds bisected by slick roadways prowled by mammoth trucks carrying black gold. http://www.deadducklake.com/?p=58
A pristine wilderness and a Native people are being wiped out to feed the world's hunger for energy, but what no one expected was for them to fight back but, with the help of Dr David Schindler professor of ecology university of Alberta – they are taking action and challenging the oil producing nations - reminding them of environmental commitments
