were not only polluted, a whole bunch of wildlife not only died but a lot of people, tens of thousands of canadians, lost their water source. the nearest town of any significant size to the spill luckily had some rainwater stored that it was able to use for emergency water on an emergency short-term basis until they could mcguyver together a hose to bring in water from another town that had been lucky enough to not have its string g ing water intake fouled by this crude oil in the river. it was a big deal. they started a cleanup operation. a lot of this was on native land in canada, in addition to the official cleanup led by the government a lot of local people came out to see the sight for themselves and to try to help with with the cleanup. this one guy i came across this in the contemporaneous news coverage. he s a member of the key nation. th cree nation. he was out there at the site of
it was a big deal. they started a cleanup operation. a lot of this was on native land in canada, in addition to the official cleanup led by the government a lot of local people came out to see the sight for themselves and to try to help with with the cleanup. this one guy i came across this in the contemporaneous news coverage. he s a member of the key nation. cree nation. he was out there at the site of the spill collecting dead animal life alongside the polluted river and you can see him making his feelings known there on his tee shirt which says when i die, i m haunting you first. so, yeah, that spill was a bad one. it happened on july 21. the company whose pipeline it was, they apologized. all the towns that lost their drinking water source they were, of course, very angry. the company told them they thought for sure all the fresh drinking water would be restored by september?
stored that it was able to use for emergency water on an emergency short-term basis until they could mcguyver together a hose to bring in water from another town that had been lucky enough to not have its string ing water intake fouled by this crude oil in the river. it was a big deal. they started a cleanup operation. a lot of this was on native land in canada, in addition to the official cleanup led by the government a lot of local people came out to see the sight for themselves and to try to help with with the cleanup. this one guy i came across this in the contemporaneous news coverage. he s a member of the key nation. cree nation. he was out there at the site of the spill collecting dead animal life alongside the polluted river and you can see him making his feelings known there on his tee shirt which says when i die, i m haunting you first. so, yeah, that spill was a bad