Upstream News, Downstream Views:

“The Oil Sands’ Bird Deterrent System Works Perfectly,” Doesn’t Work

The Oil Sands have upped their game lately, and it’s not your 'mama’s bird-of-prey window decal' any more; it’s positively military inspired. Lasers dazzle across the tailings ponds at night, while radar tracks birds and adaptive directional speakers blare everything from shotguns to sounds of distress. It doesn’t work.
Read More »

Canada Oil Sands Ltd. Profit Plummets

The oilsands have been an economic roller coaster ever since its first investors, Premier Ernest Manning and industrialist J. Howard Pew, took “the biggest gamble in history”. It has always been a gamble of bust, at times sinking so low...
Read More »

Northern agriculture initiative to receive federal boost

Back in August, during Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s annual northern tour, PMSH announced $2 million in federal funding to build a “permanent campus for the Northern Farm Training Institute” in Hay River, NWT. According to CTV, “The money will let...
Read More »

SWEEP Program Wading through Water in Latest Visit

Shawn MacKay is the environment coordinator for the Fort Resolution Métis Council. Shawn took some time out of his busy schedule this past week to talk to One River News about the Slave Watershed Environmental Effects Program, which has been...
Read More »
Scroll To Top