A workshop on “Saskatchewan Oil Impacts” was held in Regina January 24-25, 2014. It was organized by oil industry researchers Emily Eaton, geography professor from Regina and political science professor Angela Carter from Waterloo. It was attended by over 50 people from nearly twenty organizations across the province. Those attending ranged from indigenous and naturalist to surface rights and ecumenical groups.
Neil Young and Diana Krall’s Honour the Treaties tour will be over by the time you read this. But the political fall-out will carry on. I am mostly interested in the impacts of the tar-sands on air, water, land and treaty rights. But it’s also interesting to consider what the backlash to the tour tells us about the “politics of oil”.
Cheryl Grace, Spokesperson – “We are enormously pleased and relieved that...this highly inappropriate siting of the DGR in Saugeen Shores will not go ahead.
We hope to see the same decision on DGR 1 in Kincardine, and....hope to see the day when there are no further plans to bury nuclear waste in the Great Lakes Basin.
