At Our Expense
Alice Rigney says that Alberta's tar mining companies are profiting at the expense of native American communities like hers, Fort Chipewayan. Downstream from Alberta's tar sands mines and processing plants, Fort Chipewayan suffers from elevated rates of two kinds of cancer. Much of its wildlife is too contaminated with mercury and other toxic chemicals to eat, making a subsistence diet unsafe. Please support more videos like this one at www.igg.me/at/TarSandsTruth For more about the tar sands, please read articles by Daniel Grossman in GlobalPost, www.bit.ly/GPTarSands