The first is Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation’s press
releases about their ongoing legal battles with the oil industry and the
Alberta and federal governments. Their language is blunt and they are being ignored
at every turn but the battle goes forward. They will eventually win because
they are right. It is just a question of what will be left when they do.
The second is the Alberta Oil Magazine. What is instructive
here is how serious the oil industry takes all its spin of the “responsible
development” of oil resources. I am sure it becomes easy to believe all this
when you are becoming wealthy from it and are surrounded by people who are in
the same situation. Reminds me very much of all the self-congratulatory
economists, bankers, traders, and their politician buddies, getting rich off subprime
mortgages and all the related fraudulent investment vehicles. They too saw
nothing wrong with insiders (not) regulating the finance industry, nor with being bailed out
in 2008 by the taxpayer so that they could continue to make multi-million dollar
salaries while individuals and pension funds lost a great deal of money, in many cases all their savings.
The third is an on-going series of interviews with Albertans
whose lives have been irrevocably damaged by the oil industry aided and abetted
by a provincial government who really seems to have no concern about
individuals or the environment.
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