RH,

Very nice little rant you had!

It was good that Noront had a base-line study when the land is still in its initially natural state.

However, as you have stated, it may be too late to start similar study for the Athabasca River. Also, it may be just an effort of futility since the scientific evidence would just be pushed to one side, in favour of rhetoric (since you don`t need to prove anything) and 10-sec sound bites by the so-called professional environmentalists.

However, the suggestion for a video evidence is for the current tendency that the ordinary folks would want to see the evidence with their own naked eyes before reacting and forming their opinion. Sometimes, the reaction is quite swift and with the aid if social media, the information would spread like wild fires. A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video = perhaps 10,000 words.

On a related topic, Canada has been blamed as one of the countries that consumes too much energy per capita. This came from people sitting in air conditioned comfort elsewhere who have probabbly not experienced winter in Canada. There may be some truth in the amount of energy Canadians (city people) consume, since if they don`t they would freeze to death in the dark by the millions. These are facts of life that people tend to forget.

goldhunter