First Nations leaders, civilians and media gathered on a rainy day in Fort McMurray on Friday for the annual?4th Annual?Healing Walk,?a spiritual gathering and 14-kilometre walk to pray for the healing of land and people at the front lines of Alberta's oil sands expansion. The topic was trending nationally on twitter yesterday and was covered by the?U.K.-based?Guardian?as well as?The Wall Street Journal.??
Lionel Lepine of the Fort McMurray First Nation spoke on Friday about the impacts of living near the oil fields in Alberta on his community.?
"In Fort Chip we live at ground zero. Our people are dying. Cancer rates are skyrocketing," he said.?
"They call Fort McMurray 'boomtown'. I call it doom town."
Climate activist and 350.org founder?Bill McKibben?Bill McKibben, said that if ?companies choose to?take all oil out of the ground, it's "game over for the planet". Despite the economic advantages that developing oil could have on Canada, McKibben suggested that the benefits would be at the cost of future generations.?
"This is a fight between a few very wealthy men and the future,"?McKibben said in his keynote address.?
"Oil doesn't just corrode pipelines, oil is corroding our democracy," ?environmental activist Tzeporah Berman said, noting the federal governent's backing of oil industry interests.
"A problem that has a solution which isn't being acted upon isn't a problem, it's a scandal."
Photos by Margery Moore, executive producer of environmental film?"Wakan Tanka".
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