First Nations and oil exploitation

This week, as part of our First Nations awareness month (okay, it is a little over a month but there are so many topics to cover!!!), we decided to feature the oil, mining and water situation of Northern Canada. As mentioned before, the North has been over exploited but not under a sustainable development strategy. It is still time to do something to make things better but there isn't any more time to waste. Feel free to check the pamphlets and booklets on the display to get more detailed information.
Just North of Yellowknife, you can find 11 contaminated sites. Those sites are contaminated by acid-generating rocks (because of mining), ammonia, arsenic trioxide, cyanide, DDT, hazardous waste. Because it is way up North doesn't mean that we have to make ourselves believe that it doesn't exist or that we don't have some responsibility in finding a solution.