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Mon, 12/22/2014 - 10:00am to 11:00am
The consequences of tar sands development for people in its path
The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest and most polluting industrial project in the world. Impacts of tar sands development ripple out from the Northeast corner of Alberta, where the tar sands are extracted, to almost every region in North America. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with journalist Ted Genoways about the consequences of tar sands development for people in its path - ranging from First Nations people living downstream from these operations to communities along the routes of proposed pipelines carrying diluted bitumen to coastal ports.
Ted Genoways, editor-at-large for OnEarth, is the author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, an examination of Hormel Foods and the great recession. The recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim fellowship, Genoways has contributed to Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper's, Mother Jones, Outside, and his work has appeared in the Best American Travel Writing series. He edited the Virginia Quarterly Review from 2003 to 2012, during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards.
Links to some of Ted's articles:
The Ins and Outs of Keystone XL:
http://archive.onearth.org/article/keystone-xl-tar-sands-hearing-nebraska
http://archive.onearth.org/article/keystone-conflict-nebraska-firm-reviewing-tar-sands-project-has-ties-to-pipeline-builder
http://archive.onearth.org/articles/2013/04/save-us-this-first-baptist-preacher-is-also-a-land-agent-for-keystone-xl
The upcoming Nebraska Supreme Court ruling on the legality of the KXL route:
http://archive.onearth.org/articles/2013/09/the-property-rights-case-that-could-block-the-keystone-xl-pipeline
http://archive.onearth.org/articles/2014/02/nebraska-court-ruling-halts-kxl-pipeline
The Enbridge tar sands spill in Michigan:
http://archive.onearth.org/article/the-whistleblower
http://archive.onearth.org/article/the-whistleblower-part-2
http://archive.onearth.org/article/the-whistleblower-part-3
The refineries in Port Arthur, Texas (where these pipelines terminate):
http://archive.onearth.org/articles/2013/08/if-built-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-will-end-in-one-toxic-town
Ted Genoways, editor-at-large for OnEarth, is the author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, an examination of Hormel Foods and the great recession. The recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim fellowship, Genoways has contributed to Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper's, Mother Jones, Outside, and his work has appeared in the Best American Travel Writing series. He edited the Virginia Quarterly Review from 2003 to 2012, during which time the magazine won six National Magazine Awards.
Links to some of Ted's articles:
The Ins and Outs of Keystone XL:
http://archive.onearth.org/article/keystone-xl-tar-sands-hearing-nebraska
http://archive.onearth.org/article/keystone-conflict-nebraska-firm-reviewing-tar-sands-project-has-ties-to-pipeline-builder
http://archive.onearth.org/articles/2013/04/save-us-this-first-baptist-preacher-is-also-a-land-agent-for-keystone-xl
The upcoming Nebraska Supreme Court ruling on the legality of the KXL route:
http://archive.onearth.org/articles/2013/09/the-property-rights-case-that-could-block-the-keystone-xl-pipeline
http://archive.onearth.org/articles/2014/02/nebraska-court-ruling-halts-kxl-pipeline
The Enbridge tar sands spill in Michigan:
http://archive.onearth.org/article/the-whistleblower
http://archive.onearth.org/article/the-whistleblower-part-2
http://archive.onearth.org/article/the-whistleblower-part-3
The refineries in Port Arthur, Texas (where these pipelines terminate):
http://archive.onearth.org/articles/2013/08/if-built-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-will-end-in-one-toxic-town
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