![]() ![]() What about the workers? What about the cancer rates in the Indigenous communities?’”Ī decade and a half later, Beaton has piled her memories of life in a camp in Alberta – built to exploit one of the world’s largest single oil deposits – into a chunky, no-holds-barred graphic novel memoir titled Ducks: Two Years on the Oil Sands. I see a lot more than that going on, too, and no one seems to care. And I was like: ‘It’s terrible about the ducks, but I see people around me failing. “All of a sudden the whole world turned their heads and they’re like: ‘What’s going on over there? Doesn’t look good to me.’ Because of the ducks. Kate Beaton remembers it well, because she was working there at the time. I n April 2008, an international media storm erupted over the death of 1,600 ducks in a toxic pond in Alberta, Western Canada. ![]()
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