Inter Press Service: First the bugs began to disappear, says Eriel Deranger, spokesperson for Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation. By Derangers account, her small community of Fort Chipewyan is increasingly affected by the expansion of the worlds third largest crude oil deposit, the Athabasca tar sands of Alberta, Canada. In the last decade, the town of Fort Chipewyan in northeastern Alberta has witnessed its local caribou herds threatened with extinction, a decline in the numbers of migratory birds, and elevated...