je.st
news
Canadian Neil Young on Oil Sands: 'Fort McMurray Looks Like Hiroshima'
2013-09-11 07:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Canadian rocker Neil Young is wading into the heated debate over the oil sands and the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, warning of the health effects on First Nations peoples and the wasteland that is Fort McMurray. Mr. Young, one of Canada's best-known singer-songwriters since the 1960s, told an event in Washington yesterday that he recently travelled to Alberta, where "much of the oil comes from, much of the oil that we're using here, which they call ethical oil because it's not from Saudi Arabia...
Tags: young
oil
fort
canadian
Category:Electronics and Electrical