Interview with Ceno Loyie-clark

Alas it has been a year…..

At long last, I bring you part 1 of 2 videos that together represent the last major interview of the Road to Athabasca. We last left our team in Edmonton Alberta where we had an invitation to explore the Saskatchewan River. In order to be in two places at once, Derek and Lou broke off from the main group and made the drive north to Slave Lake for an interview with Ceno Loyie-Clark. Ceno was, and remains an indigeneous activist vocally trying to make a change in a community awash in numerous fossil fuel pipelines and projects.

Particularly common in Slave Lake are "In-Situ" wells, which although less spectacularly infamous than open pit mining, all together cover an area of Canada that comprise the largest industrial project on the planet. They appear to have a smaller impact than the massive pits of Fort McMurray, yet they can be just as, or more damaging in their own ways.

Over the course of several hours, Ceno gave a wonderfully frank assessment of what it was like when the industry arrived, how bitumen in-situ extraction works, and gave our team a look at what in-situ wells do to the surrounding area.

After this interview, everyone began the trip home and ended a very long day in Jasper. The next day we would be giving our own interviews to the camera in a Vancouver hotel room. That is a story for a later time.

For now, after a long time promising him it was coming, enjoy the wry knowledge of Ceno!