This Canadian radio report tells how citizen campaign group CEDunham fought for 4 years to prevent the permitting of a pump station in their town of Dunham, Quebec. The pump station was required to reverse the flow of oil to allow tar sands to be pumped through the Enbridge Trailbreaker system.
This is a powerful grassroots story about the CEDunham group’s victory asserting their right to have local control where they live.
How are communities in the US working to create laws to protect their towns from corporate power and the government’s regulatory system? Read here:
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/stand-up-to-corporate-power/communities-take-power
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/stand-up-to-corporate-power/communities-take-power

Dunham,Quebec
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