Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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To save a few dollars in the process of retrieving oil, BP now has to pay a penalty in the
billions of $$ and face man slaughter charges.
The price at the pumps will just make the adjustments necessary to balance the expense book.
But what about the families who lost loved ones and the devastation to the environment?
This man made catastrophe is a lesson. Is anybody paying attention?
Oh! and lets not be complacent and forget Canada’s very own reckless catastrophe in the making
with relentless greed and growth…. “The Alberta Oil Tar Sands” of course.
Guaranteed to pollute our waters, and environment, disrupt nature, distort the living creatures
and fishes into an unrecognizable species and force the human inhabitants to seek refuge.
We should hang our heads in shame.
John Fefchak
Virden. 16 Nov. 2012.