Photo by Michael Hall.
And then, on Friday, the SUV with the giant addiction problem seen in the photo above appeared outside the hearings. "Quick Fix" is an art installation by engineer Hugh Patterson. It took six weeks and three recycled 55-gallon steel oil barrels -- two originally containing industrial cutting fluid, and one for jet fuel -- along with other art scrapes to pull the provocative piece together, Patterson told The Tyee.
Here's what else Patterson had to say about the piece:
"This work was born from my own struggle to come to terms with my relationship with oil, the carbon economy and how to speak my heart and mind in a way that would be heard.
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/02/04/Quick-Fix-Installation/
!["THESE PEOPLE [WHO MINE THE TAR SAND] HAVE AN LOW SPIRITUAL I.Q." - ELDER FRANCOIS PAULETTE. #IDLENOMORE IN THE UTAH STATE CAPITAL TODAY. NATIVE AMERICAN ROUND DANCE PROTEST HITS THE CAPITOL Elder Francoise Paulette, an indigenous Canadian activist who has campaigned against the tar sands mining that has devastated his homeland brought a message to Utah officials who have approved the first tar sands mine in Utah and the nation. “People that are raping the land and people that are destroying the land—I see these people as having a very low spiritual IQ,” Paulette said. The Idle No More protest brought Paulette to the Utah State Capitol where more than 75 people rallied and joined in a traditional round dance in the capitol rotunda. The event was organized by activist groups Peaceful Uprising, the Utah Tar Sands Resistance and Before it Starts. In January state regulators gave the go ahead for the approval of the first tar sands mine in Utah and the nation, on land adjacent to the scenic Book Cliffs in eastern Utah. The permitting for the mine did not require a full-blown groundwater test, which advocates say is disturbing since the mining process is new to Utah and the nation, as City Weekly reported in 2012. Tar sands mining in Alberta, Canada has massively scarred the land and contaminated the water, albeit through a different extraction process than is to be used in the Utah operation. Paulette regardless sounded a warning. “Our people, especially the [women] that are expecting are told not to drink the water from the river, not to eat the fish from the river, not to eat the moose that are living along the river,” Paulette said. “We have never experienced this in our entire in our entire history.” Since tar sands mining has wreaked havoc with the land that Paulette’s tribe of 30,000 in northern Canada has lived on for generations, he has taken to travelling the world and speaking out against tar sands mining and rallying opposition. “My friends, all the people that work in this building, the politicians, your church people, the traditional people, the people that pray, the indigenous people, the people that love and care for nature—you must come together,” Paulette said. http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-25-9124-native-american-round-dance-protest-hits-the-capitol.html](https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/c0.0.396.396/p403x403/536933_150600961765395_1692333020_n.jpg)
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