From Our Homelands to the Tar Sands

2013 (Presenter Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Climate and Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace & Cree Environmental Justice Activist) - The impacts that extraction from tar sands have on communities in northern Canada will be presented including how these impacts will reach countless communities throughout Canada, the United States and across the globe. The tar sands mega-project will be one of the largest industrial projects on the planet. The aftermath of one of the largest oil spills in recent history will also be presented. This lecture was recorded at "The Quest for Global Environmental Equity in an Increasingly Inequitable World," the Elizabeth Babbott Conant & Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Conference on the Environment on April 18, 19, and 20, 2013. https://www.conncoll.edu/academics/majors-departments-programs/majors-and-minors/goodwin-niering-center-for-the-environment/conferences/the-quest-for-global-environmental-equity/