I’m still a fisherman: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Sarah Resnick, 15 June 2023
Stories about the oil sands tend to fall into one of two categories. Either they emphasise economic prosperity, describing the well-paid jobs and the money flowing into impoverished areas, or they focus on environmental catastrophe: forests razed by vast strip mines, tailings ponds filled with toxic sludge, polluted waterways and, in the surrounding communities, elevated rates of cancer and disease. Kate Beaton’s Ducks can’t be slotted neatly into either.