More Dead Ducks at Syncrude, Sootaanaah (Duane) Goodstriker, Maude Barlow "The Fight for Water"

The Fight for Water: Challenging Water Markets in Alberta.
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Sootaanaah (Duane) Goodstriker is a 50-year-old Blood Indian and trained biologist. Currently he serves as the Ambassador of Environmental Affairs for the Sovereign Blackfoot Nation. From 1995-97 he was the Advisor to the Chiefs of Alberta's Treaty Nations Environmental Secretariat. He has served as a Fireman-EMT, with the RCMP and as a National Park Warden. He is a lifelong environmentalist, intervening on such projects as the Enbridge Pipeline, the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline, and helped to the prevent the expansion of the EPCOR water management plant onto sacred Indigenous grounds. He is a published author with a chapter, "Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) Wars" in the book Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice, and co-hosts a radio program titled Acimowin on CJSR in Edmonton.

Maude Barlow
National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians
Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly


Globe and Mail: Hundreds of ducks are dead after landing in a toxic Syncrude tailings pond on Monday, igniting yet another public-relations disaster for a company and an industry that was slapped with the largest environmental penalty in Alberta court history just three days ago.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/toxic-syncrude-tailings...

Citizen Media: Richard D. Brinkman http://www.CIActivist.org " Civil Information Activism."

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[a300guy]

Well done Doug!