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'There's no sense in speaking up' despite deadly gas risks

Cribb, Robert
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/01/theres-no-sense-in-speaking-up-despite-deadly-gas-risks.html

Publisher:  Toronto Star
Date Written:  01/10/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

An investigation into oil industry in Saskatchewan reveals a culture of secrecy fuelled by oil industry money, the province's reliance on that money, and the threats and intimidation that have followed those who have spoken out.

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Excerpt: One couple who had worked in the industry said they had each been sickened by H2S near their home in the southeast of the province. They met reporters several times but refused to be named.

If anyone learned of the meetings, word would spread, the husband said, and he would be blackballed and unable to find work.

"There's nothing going to change," his wife said. "There's no sense in speaking up, because nothing you do will ever change anything."

The few who have publicly raised concerns about spills in their fields, water being fouled, sacred sites defiled, or gas emissions wafting into their yards told of losing clients, neighbours who stopped speaking to them, jobs lost and other methods of intimidation.
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