[Raptor235]

As seems to be the norm, the number of occupants of the small, blue-seated auditorium appears to double in the last five minutes before the event is scheduled to start. Seated on stage behind a table (is that a skull-and-crossbones-adorned water glass?) are Stephen Hazell (Sierra Club Director), Clayton Thomas-Muller (Indigenous Oil Campaign Organizer for The Indigenous Environmental Network), Jean-Yves LeFort (Energy Campaigner for the Council of Canadians), and Trevor Haché (of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (CYCC)). Barely noticeable in a back corner of the stage, surveying the growing crowd over the top of his reading glasses, sits the guest of honour, journalist and author William Marsden.

Marsden wrote Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care), an investigative tour of the oil and methane gas extraction industries in Alberta and how, the author believes, these industries are leading to the province’s destruction.
You can find the entire article here http://aboutmyplanet.com/black-gold/...marsden-speaks

[Simon47]

It is intersting that the complaint some make is that youth do not care or know about these issues and while that is a fuactor that effects continued consumption and environmentaal abuse but kids aren't running things. I remember the RioSummit when David Suzuki's daughter; 11 at the time, spoke at a level fr beyond most delgates and proubd father relates a story that she was approached by the American delegate who stated; I gues it's up to your generation; to which, she replied; No; it's up to yours. I paraphrase somewhat but her message was both poignant and clear. The time has passed so Now is always going to be the only time to fight the profiteers who so oft declare that we must protect the economy. Many have been saying for decades and since I was a child; No Environment; No Life; No Economy. We may revered our democratic process but the State is killing us.

Sim

Originally Posted by Raptor235

As seems to be the norm, the number of occupants of the small, blue-seated auditorium appears to double in the last five minutes before the event is scheduled to start. Seated on stage behind a table (is that a skull-and-crossbones-adorned water glass?) are Stephen Hazell (Sierra Club Director), Clayton Thomas-Muller (Indigenous Oil Campaign Organizer for The Indigenous Environmental Network), Jean-Yves LeFort (Energy Campaigner for the Council of Canadians), and Trevor Hach� (of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (CYCC)). Barely noticeable in a back corner of the stage, surveying the growing crowd over the top of his reading glasses, sits the guest of honour, journalist and author William Marsden.

Marsden wrote Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care), an investigative tour of the oil and methane gas extraction industries in Alberta and how, the author believes, these industries are leading to the province�s destruction.
You can find the entire article here William Marsden Speaks Against The Tar Sands - AboutMyPlanet.com