by Tom Knudson

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/16/94126/quest-for-oil-leaves-trail-of.html

Like many of her neighbors, Celina Harpe is angry about the oil pollution at her doorstep. No longer can she eat the silvery fish that dart along the shore near her home. Even the wind that hurries over the water reeks of oil waste.

Baloa Gbone stands at the site of an oil spill in Nigeria's Delta region. (Shashank Bengali / MCT)

"I get so mad," she said. "I feel very sad."

Harpe, 70, isn't a casualty of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. She lives in a remote corner of Alberta, Canada, where another oil field that's vital to the United States is damaging one of the world's most important ecosystems: Canada's northern forest.