Cancer cluster in Fort Chipewyan
| December 12, 2008- Artist: Mike Mercredi
- Title: Cancer cluster in Fort Chipewyan
- Album: Redeye: Vancouver Cooperative Radio
- Genre: Interview
- Year: 2000
- Length: 12:18 minutes (11.26 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Show Notes:
Mike Mercredi is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. He lives in Fort Chipewyan, a small town on Lake Athabaska downstream from the huge Alberta tar sands development. He calls what is happening in his community "slow industrial genocide". We caught up with him during a speaking tour to raise awareness about the impact of the tar sands.