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‘I was a PR campaign’: oil cleanup worker

As Cold Lake disaster oozes into year two, wildlife rehabber remembers ‘insane’ media day.

alberta, Alberta Energy Regulator, CNRL, cold lake, energy, oil spill, oilsands

The spill that keeps on spilling

Eight months and nearly two million litres of spilled bitumen later, Canadian energy company CNRL hasn’t figured out how to stop four mysterious leaks in northeastern Alberta.

alberta, Beaver Lake Cree Nation, BLCN, Canadian Natural Resources Limited, CNRL, cold lake, energy, First Nations, oil spill, oilsands, steam injection, VICE

An oil spill in Cold Lake, Alberta can’t stop, won’t stop

Over 1.5 million litres of heavy crude has seeped out of the ground at a military base in northeastern Alberta. Regulators aren’t sure of the cause or when the spill will end.

alberta, Beaver Lake Cree Nation, bitumen, cold lake, oil sands, oil spill, tar sands, VICE

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Sarah Berman’s writing has appeared in Adbusters, Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun and many others. A lifelong supporter of independent and alternative press, Sarah has contributed multimedia to nonprofits like Journalists for Human Rights, Megaphone Magazine and Paper Tiger TV.

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