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Q&A: Kate Beaton Describes the Toll Taken by Alberta’s Oil Sands on Wildlife and the Workers Who Mine the Viscous Crude
The title of her graphic memoir, “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands,” refers to an incident in 2008 when hundreds of ducks landed on a pond of mine tailings and died.
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Host Jenni Doering and Producer Aynsley O’Neill with Kate Beaton.
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