In reports for VICE Canada, I wrote about Alberta’s tar sands and infrastructure that services them throughout North America.
As the Harper government flouted and re-wrote laws to facilitate rapid tar sands growth and criminalize dissent, I reported on the Indigenous-led grassroots movement and legal challenges to stop fossil fuel expansion.
In Toronto, I reported on Enbridge Line 9 – a four decade old tar sands pipeline with an assessed 90% risk of rupture.
Tailings pond. Fort McMurray, Alberta. 
The surface of a tailings pond in Fort McMurray, Alberta. 
Tar Sands Healing Walk, 2014. 
Tar Sands Healing Walk, 2014. 
Neil Young with Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, May 2014. 
Activists disrupt the first day of NEB hearings for Enbridge's Line 9B in Toronto, Oct. 2013. 
Enbridge Line 9 section near Finch Ave. in Toronto. 
Enbridge Line 9 National Energy Board hearings, 2013 Toronto. 
An activist U-locks himself to equipment to shut down an Enbridge Line 9 construction site. October 2014.