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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SO DIFFERENT and YET SO MUCH the SAME:
The greed of money; at the expense of ALL.
The Stench of Money… Black Gold. Sun Cor started operations in 1967. Alberta, Canada.
"Aboriginal peoples have had great difficulties maintaining their lands and livelihoods in the face of massive encroachment. The actual reserve or community land base of Aboriginal people has shrunk by almost two-thirds since Confederation and on reserve, resources has largely vanished."
re:…Canadian Royal Commission (1996) on Aboriginal peoples in the Athabasca Tar Sands Region.
The Present.
Environmentally, it’s impact is already a disaster, a slow motion that is contaminating the basin of one of the largest river systems on this planet.
“The river used to be blue. Now it is brown. Nobody can fish or drink from it.The air is bad.”(re: An elder in a Native community along the Athabasca River.)
Toxic water-dumped into huge ponds, where it eventually will be leaching back into the waters courses.
An area of 54,000 square miles, vulnerable and being devastated, roughly centred on the boom town
of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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The Yellow Gold. The Black Hills. South Dakota. U.S.A.
In 1868, the U.S. government signed a treaty exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement
forever.
However when European Americans discovered gold there in 1874, the government re-assigned
the Sioux, against their wishes to other reservations.
This sparked the fires of the Black Hills War, and the saga of “Custer’s Last Stand”
"Is this a preview of what will take place in Canada"?
John Fefchak.
Virden, Manitoba.