Landowners ring alarm bells about the Alberta government paying them on behalf of delinquent oil and gas companies
Democracy
‘Broken’ trust: senior political staffers met by jeers at meeting with rural Albertans
Alberta’s oil and gas well problem is a ‘giant stinking pile of shit,’ according to the premier’s special advisor, who wrote the province’s strategy to address the issue and is on the Alberta Energy Regulator board
Two Albertas: rural town halls and Big Oil’s halls of power
A meeting in rural Alberta reveals a knot of tension in the global oil industry: who bears its burden? It's a divide between economic promises and the struggles of small communities
Dispatches from the front line of the war for democracy: an interview with Chris Hedges
Immersing yourself in author and journalist Chris Hedges’ world, even briefly, is overwhelming and important. His work chronicles all that is ugly and corrupt in the corporate-controlled western world — from environmental destruction, to right-wing Christian fascism, to new-age slavery — and forces you to reconsider the spoon-fed notion that we live in a functioning … Continue reading Dispatches from the front line of the war for democracy: an interview with Chris Hedges
Drew Anderson 