Voices of Water

Marco Morency is the front man for one of Canada’s most heartening stories of environmental redemption, having inherited a remarkable victory thanks to the work of his dogged predecessors. In 1967 a causeway was built across the Petitcodiac River just upstream from the city of Moncton, New Brunswick, severing its connection to the frothy and rambunctious tidal flows of the Bay of Fundy. The fish ladder installed in the causeway didn’t do its job. As a result, fish diversity plummeted and the river filled in fast from sediment below the causeway.

Last April, for the first time in decades, the

Few people are as qualified to comment on the true price that communities pay in the aftermath of an environmental disaster like the BP oil spill as Dr. Steven Picou. The insights provided by Picou's really gave shape to the voices of the wives, mothers, children and fishermen of the gulf coast that I have heard as I've explored this area in the aftermath of an environmental disaster.

Picou, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern Alabama, studied the community of Cordova, Alaska for twenty years after the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. Today, this truly insightful world expert on