Last night reporters from USA Today described the work that went into a series of articles that won this year's Grantham Prize, awarded at the Newseum in Washington DC. Runners-up, who received "awards of special merit" were a team of freelance filmmakers who did the PBS series "e2 Transport"; three reporters from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel who dug into problems with chemicals we all use every day; and Andrew Nikiforuk, an Alberta, Canada-based journalist who wrote the book "Tar Sands" (Greystone Books).
See www.granthamprize.org for the background of these projects. I would include a hyper link, but the blogger technology is not cooperating with me.
The photo here shows Nikiforuk with Sunshine Menezes, executive director of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting and prize administrator for the Grantham Prize. The jury coordinator for the prize is Bud Ward, publisher of the Yale Climate Media Forum. See www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org.
As a member of the committee that helped screen the entries into a list of semi-finalists, I was especially glad to see Nikiforuk's exhaustive research and clear, graceful writing get this kind of attention. Too few people understand what exactly is involved in ensuring a steady flow of petroleum. We in the United States are going to be living by the destruction of the land that holds the thick substance known as tar sands, or bitumen.
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