Everyone’s childhood science hero, Bill Nye The Science Guy, is currently in Alberta working on a climate change documentary. And not surprisingly, when Nye went to the tar sands, he thought it was a “depressive” sight.
“From an environmental point of view locally, it’s astonishing and overwhelming,” he toldAPTN National News.
The Alberta tar sands is one of the largest deposits of crude oil in the world, and has been the focus of plenty of controversy in Canada—especially among First Nation communities—for its damaging environmental effects.
On Monday, Nye visited the community of Fort McKay First Nation, where the land and the community has been severely impacted by decades of tar sands production.
“I think anybody would say that First Nations have rights that have been abridged or catastrophically curtailed,” Nye told APTN. […]
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