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DeSmog On July 6, 2013, a train hauling crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken region derailed in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, resulting in fires and explosions that killed 47 people and wiped out a large part of the small Canadian town’s center. At the time I was living in Albany, New York, which had become a major distribution point for Bakken oil delivered to the Port of Albany in mile-long trains like the one that devastated Lac-Mégantic. In the six months following the deadly disaster, several more trains of Bakken oil derailed and exploded across North America. As the risk of these oil trains became very apparent, I began investigating how the trains could be allowed to travel through communities like mine in Albany and started publishing my findings here at DeSmog. Now, just after the six year anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic disaster, I have compiled all of that research into the new book ....
As the Arctic s only ceramic arts studio, Matchbox Gallery is changing our ideas of Northern art Studio founders Jim and Sue Shirley have spent 30 years helping to foster a thriving creative scene in Kangiqliniq, Nunavut. Social Sharing Jim and Sue Shirley have spent 30 years helping to foster a thriving creative scene in Kangiqliniq, Nunavut Posted: Dec 10, 2020 12:00 PM ET | Last Updated: December 10, 2020 Facing Forward by Pierre Aupilardjuk and Shary Boyle.(Photo by M.N. Hutchinson) Facing Forward, a collaboration by Inuit artist Pierre Aupilardjuk and Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle, looks like an artifact from another planet. Boyle s contribution a porcelain, human-like figure wearing a colourful herringbone-pattern dress is seated, elbows resting on its knees, holding up its three heads. The heads, made by Aupilarjduk, seem ancient, with smoke-fired surfaces and vacant eyes. The piece is like a visual dialogue between the artists, unfolding ....