Jiri Rezac: Canada’s Tar Sands II

Suffering the consequences

“You can take a view on the destruction of the land, the size and scale of things to come in the next decades – the projects already designed, approved and underway will occupy an area the size of Florida. However, the province of Alberta alone is roughly equivalent to the size of France: if you take off from Calgary, you’ll fly for at least two hours before reaching Fort McMurray, the epicentre of oil development, and you’re still in Alberta. To sacrifice a proportion of that for petrodollars, jobs and prosperity is an obvious and well-rehearsed choice seen the world over.

“However, what got me most is the blatant disregard for the people living downstream from this deadly industry: Canada’s First Nations.” – Jiri Rezac, July 2010

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