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This episode of the Green Interview features Larry Kowalchuk, a Canadian human rights and environmental lawyer who is representing two groups of New Brunswick citizens in fundamental and dramatic legal challenges to the fossil fuel industry and the governments that support them. The New Brunswick Anti-Shale Gas Alliance argues that the development of unconventional shale gas and oil deposits poses so great a threat to human health and the environment...
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The lawyer had not wanted the case -- it was too big, complicated and risky. Concerning a cluster of childhood leukemia victims in a small town north of Boston, the city wells had been poisoned by industrial chemicals and the case turned into an epic struggle taking nine years of the lawyer's life. At the heart of the legal system, he was confronted by powerful, well-connected interests who would do anything to win. In the end, the struggle nearly...