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Agribusiness, Pesticides and Climate Change in Alberta

May 15, 2019

Video: Agribusiness, Pesticides and Climate Change in Alberta


Alberta, Canada was a farming community well into the 50s. Now it's not only dominated by the oil and gas industry, but by agribusiness too - rapidly destroying huge forests as it expands and dangerously increasing the use of pesticide, a product of the oil industry. But local activist groups Pesticide Free Alberta and the Global Foundation for Social Harmony and Sustainable Development are fighting back.