"We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and by the very nature of their enterprises leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated.......We take this as a given for it is the foundation of our system, the way commerce extracts value and profit in a resource-driven economy. But if you think about it, especially from the perspective of so many other cultures, touched and inspired by quite different visions of life and land, it appears to be a very odd and highly anomalous human behavior."
-Wade Davis in The Wayfinders

Aug 25, 2008

Alliance Romaine nearing the end of their journey

The four canoeists who have been on the Romaine River since mid-July are nearing the end of their epic 48 day adventure. The Chercher Le Courant blog has just posted video of some of their trip and they are working hard on a documentary about the project. Hats of to them and wish them a safe last few days on the river.

Visit- http://www.chercherlecourant.org/ to see the video.

The blog is french, but the jist of the lastest posts is that things are well, the portaging has been difficult recently around le bassin du Murailles, they have a met up with a raft with people from Sierra Club Quebec, Fondation Rivières, la Société pour Vaincre la Pollution, and Nature Québec, and they have the blues becuase their trip is almost over. The other big news was how fast they got a replacement video camera from Montreal to the Romaine Expedition. It may seem frivolous, but they have been showing segments weekly on Chercher Le Courant as well as filming a documentary with Denis McCready. Lots of Quebecers are watching!!

Alliance Romaine Website-
http://allianceromaine.wordpress.com/
Posted by FredC

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