Yesterday, Austin and I watched a couple short clips about the Sacred Headwaters region in Mount Klappan, northern BC. Royal Dutch Shell is hoping to extract oil from this region, using the same extraction practices (coal bed methane gas proposal) they are using in the Niger Delta of Africa.
British Columbia: Nigeria North?
The Niger Delta is one of the world's largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions on earth due to Shell's practice of "flaring," or burning off gas, daily. Today, roughly half of Shell's Nigerian operations are shut down for "crimes against humanity" and "torture."
I asked Austin if he thinks Shell should be allowed to extract oil in the Sacred Headwaters. Austin said, "No. They should go further north, to a region where there isn't such an abundance of life. Somewhere more barren."
On June 6, 2007, Royal Dutch Shell took over complete control of it's Canadian subsidiary, Shell Canada.
Here are a couple other links, related to this: Voices of the Sacred Headwaters and Sacred Headwaters: Skeena, Nass, Stikine
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