George Poitras

George Poitras is a former Chief of the Mikisew Cree First Nation, one of two First Nations located in Fort Chipewyan, 200km downstream from the largest tar sands operations.

Tiohtiake group at Centre St-Pierre, March 17, 2011

Mentionned:

Lake Athabasca
Peace River
Peace-Athabasca Delta
Mackenzie Watershed
Slave RIver
Unesco
Wood Buffalo National Park
Arctic circle
W.A.C. Bennet Dam
Great Canadian Oil Sands Limited / Suncor
Syncrude / Exon Mobil
CNRL

First Nation's Treaty Rights
Athabasca River
Northwest Territories
Saskatchewan
British-Columbia
Wood Buffalo Municipality
Ed Stelmach
Dr. Kevin Timoney
Dr. John O'connor
Mayor of Fort McMurray, Melissa Blake
James Cameron
Dr. Schindler

Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP)
Environmental Defense
Stand With Fort Chipewyan, University of Edmonton
Government of Alberta
Government of Canada
Alberta Cancer Board
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta
Fort McMurray

Films:
Downstream on Babelgum.com
Dirty Oil (narraged by Neve Campbell)
H2Oil (Shannon Walsh)
Crude Sacrifice

LIFE AND DEATH
DOWNSTREAM

"All we have is our voices and the thruth about what's going on."

A first-person look at the world's largest industrial project and its impacts on Indigenous people, health, and life.

In the last decade, Fort Chipewyan has faced a cancer epidemic that many believe is connected to petroleum exploitation.

Geroge Poitras' knowledge of the social and ecological impacts of the tar sands on Indigenous communities offered Montrealers a rare unfiltered look at life at ground zero of the world's largest industrial project.

 

This event was co-organized by QPIRG McGill, Climate Justice Montreal and co-sponsored by the First People's House at McGill University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Climate Camp (UK)
BP
Enbridge
Canada House in London, UK
Brazil

Aamjiwnaang First Nation
Chemical Valley
Sarnia, Ontario
Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho
Montana Confederated Salish people and 'The Haul'

White House State Department
Enbridge'sTrailbreaker pipeline

Middle East Crisis
Global Warming
Climate Change

National Geographic
AFN (Assembly of First Nations)
Shawn Atleo National Chief
Dances of Dependency, Calvin Helin
Colonization
China
The Dene group of First Nations
Dog Rib Rae First Nations
Northwest Territories
NWT Communities Association
The Cree group of First Nations
Metis people
2008 Water Conference, Fort Chipewyan
Louis Riel
Gabriel Dumont
Dawson Creek pipeline bombers