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This is a huge issue for me because the Alberta Oilsands, which is the United State's biggest supplier of foriegn oil, is corrupting the river on which my town sits, so my family and other loved ones are consuming this water. The cancer rate in Northern Alberta is among the highest in the country. Not to mention the HUGE environmental impact that this has.

Companys such as Syncrude are dumping toxic sludge into the Athabasca River, as well as creating huge lakes of toxic sludge, in which hundreds of birds are dying, and countless communities and native reserves are being poisened.

The Oil Sands are set to use 450 million cubic meteres of water from the Athabasca river this year alone. After use, the water is sent back into large toxic pools so large they are able to be seen from space.

Downstream from the Sands, at a reserve near Fort Chipewyan, colon, liver, blood, and bile-duct cancers are appearing at a shocking rate. Forest, Wetland and wildlife habitats are being wiped out by the mile day by day. If current development is allowed to proceed, an area the size of Florida will be wiped out.

Here's some photos of the issues related to this topic and hopefully you're as disgusted as I am.

     

  

So, this is my first entry, and my first time writing something longer than a couple of sentences since God knows when. Although I really used to enjoy it.

Anyway I'm Jordyn and my sons name is Carson. We live in a small town in Alberta Canada. It reminds me very much of the town town from the movie Sweet Home Alabama. Pigeon Creek, I think it was called.

I'm happily unmarried to my boyfriend (actually we're engaged but I dont want to sound too pretentious) Dustin.

I work as a hairstylist, but being in a small town there's no salons here that meet my needs. The salon I am in right now is too crazy to even talk about, and if you can imagine what the small town hair salon stereotype is, that's where I'm working. I go home every day smelling of perm and coffee, and really have learned nothing more than the day before.

So I've made this decision to start a day home. My boss is unaware of that decision as of yet because...well I'm a big fat chicken whose too afraid to tell her. I know she'll be angry and she isnt someone you want to piss off. Carson is impossible to get ready in the morning and its a fight all the way to the babysitters house because all he wants to do is spend his entire day with me. But when I'm in a rush in the morning, I cant spend the time to comfort him like I would like and sometimes I get angry, then I spend my whole day feeling guilty.

Dustin and I have been planning baby number 2 for a while, but the timing just never seems right. We'd like to have it before Carson is 5 and he's already 3 and a half. It sounds like a lot of time, but for many of those planning another child, it isnt really a lot of time what with being preggers for 9 months and just finding the right time and having the right amount of expendible income (which seems impossible nowadays).

All in all, life is good and everything seems to be looking up, even if the economy is looking down.