Damien Gillis discusses the resistance to the Enbridge pipeline, the recent “Keepers of the Water” conference in Fort Nelson, BC, and the increasing impacts on water, human and animal health from natural gas hydraulic fracking with CJSF’s Sylvia Richardson. The pair also touch on Damien’s documentary film project Fractured Land, currently in production, which examines these issues and the concept of “Canada’s Carbon Corridor” – an interconnected web of fossil fuel and mining projects throughout northern Alberta and BC, designed to open up new markets in Asia – told through the eyes of a young First Nations law student. (Oct. 6 – 20 min)
Thank you very much Damien for your continued hard work in keeping these issues in front of us. In relation to your Carbon Corridor comment, I thought you might be interested in this story today from The Tyee, http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/10/11/Chairman-Harper/index.html.
Thank you Mr. Gillis for a very informative and eye opening talk on where we are. The mismanagement of our forests, fish farming etc. gives little confidence that other resource projects are given proper study or even rudimentary understandiing before proceeding full bore into the unknown has to stop. I for one am gratefull for your efforts. You are correct that enbridge dominates the evenening news while many more important issues are not even given recognition, I suppose if one were cynical he could see this more clearly!