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Effects of the Tar Sands: Fort Mackay, Alberta

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Clips from an interview with Celina Harpe, an elder in the Cree community of Fort Mackay, about 40km downstream from Suncor and Syncrude plants on the Athabasca River. She describes the increase in cancer, the lowering of the water levels on the river, and the disappearance of wildlife in the area. For more: http://www.oilsandstruth.org, http://www.dominionpaper.ca/

Topics: Economy & Labour, Environment, Health, Human Rights, Politics
Dossiers: Exploring Alberta’s Tar Sands: Fuelling whose economy?
Keywords: Cree, First Nations, Fort MacKay, tar sands
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