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During the Nova Scotia government’s environmental impact assessment of hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking), the review commission was overwhelmed by citizen voices across the province and their concerns for the ecosystem damage, water usage, contamination of drinking water, and the storage and transport of chemicals associated with fracking. This response resulted in the 2014 legislation to prohibit fracking in Nova Scotia. The power of the people is the reason we were able to “keep it in the ground.”

In this song I wanted to capture Mother Nature’s voice on the issue. If they were provided the opportunity to submit a letter during the public consultation, I believe this is what they would say. I encourage you to listen and/or read along as you stand on the bridge over the Kennetcook River - ground zero of the fracking debate. Take a moment to become aware of all your senses, what you can see, taste, and hear. Feel your feet connected to the earth and the history beneath them. Imagine what fracking may have done to the landscape around you and consider if it would be worth the risk.

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Look around
Nature is abounding
Can you see it now?
The reason we’re connecting
The rivers go out to the ocean
Across generations
That’s how

Look around
The shorelines tell a story
Can you feel it now?
How many were before you
They wore me down
With their machines and the greed
I couldn’t keep up
That’s how

I can’t do this anymore
I can’t let you break me any further is too far
There’s nothing left in this old heart

Look around
The horizon makes you feel so small
Do you get it now?
It’s just how much you can’t control
A ripple effect
As it returns from the earth
With a deep breath
That’s how

I can’t do this anymore
I can’t let you break me any further is too far
There’s nothing left in this old heart
I can’t do this anymore
I can’t let you break me any further is too far
There’s nothing left in this old heart

Oil and water don’t mix it’s not worth the risk not worth the risk
Oil and water don’t mix it’s not worth the risk

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from Carry the Spark: Songs from 50 Things, released October 13, 2022
Written, recorded, and mixed by Braden Lam

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We aim to make extraordinary experiences that provoke the consideration of new perspectives and ideas. We prioritize questions over answers, and the discovery of possibility over the depiction of what is. We favour the intuitive over the formulaic and thrive on the play between the imagined and the real.

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