ReturnToTheTarSands

We’re about to leave Red Deer and tonight will be our last night on the road. It’s gone by so fast.
After Edmonton we stayed with Richard and Linda McKelvie in their amazing home in Ponoka. They are an example of what we need to see more of as we enter such an uncertain future. Their [...]

Filed under: Environmental Justice, Labour, RTTTS, Renewable Energy, Trade on August 27th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

After three days biking in the northern woodlands, many mosquito and spider bites later, sweat-stained and with berry spots still on our palms, we have arrived in lovely Lac La Biche.  This place is a seeming pastoral paradise–sheep and cattle loose in the green, round hay-bales on the rolling hills, Saskatoon berries and rose hips along the grill of aspen, the edge between the inner, blacker forest and the [...]

Filed under: RTTTS, Renewable Energy on August 21st, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Our chapped lips and reddened noses are evidence that the wind blows strong and the sun shines hard in Southern Alberta. The power of the elements is not lost on the residents here. Wind turbines are as much a part of the landscape and local culture as are the grazing cows and rolling fields of [...]

Filed under: Renewable Energy, TTTS on August 23rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »