Mother Nature, Alberta – Canada, 2018
Alberta occupies a special place on the map of Canada. Because this Province of the west covered with lakes and forests, is also abundant in oil. The black gold makes Canada the world’s third largest oil reserve permeates the oil sands over an exploitable area of more than 140 000 square kilometers around Peace River, Cold Lake and Fort McMurray.
Fort Chipewyan is one of the most affected villages. In this small community accessible by road only few weeks per year, used to drawing its resources from the surrounding nature, commercial fishing is now forbidden and logging, dictated by the oil industries, has driven away caribous.
Toxics discharges also produce their effects on inhabitants’ health of Fort Chipewyan, confronted to uncommon pathologies and abnormal cancer rates. A sanitary crisis revealed more than ten years ago but on which provincial authorities continue to keep the silence.
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