P.A. climate activists presenting a gift with a message to new PM
A gift from the Prince Albert stretch of the North Saskatchewan River will soon be given to prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau.
Climate activist group Climate Welcome, including organizer Nancy Carswell and her three-year-old grandson Decklan Dumais, braved the rain and the slippery mud at the Prince Albert boat launch on Tuesday to take the sample.
“He’s the reason I’m doing this,” Carswell said. “By 2050 I’ll probably have passed on, and he will be left with the world damaged by climate change. Or we’ve gone on a different track and he’ll have a better, more human-friendly planet.”
For Climate Welcome, the water sample is symbolic of what’s at risk if Canada expands their tar sands usage.