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LT, do not make us send Mecha Godzilla after you...
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It may have to do with the Dene Tha' first nation and oil rights on their reserve in Alberta. Rene Metacat is the elected councillor for the Upper Hay River District 212, Meander River Community. This may be a placeholder for his personal site. That picture looks like Alberta, eh?

I could be wrong, though.

I was wrong indeed. It's not oil, it's natural gas.

Tab 1 here (the PDF itself crashed my browser) contains an overview of the Mackenzie gas pipeline project, 2 and 3 contain some interesting voices; the issue for them is the Mackenzie gas pipeline project and its impact on traditional ways of hunting, fishing, and trapping.

It seems Metacat's point is a little different. He testified before the House of Commons in 2003 that the Meander River community, super-rich in reserves, sees none of the money other regions do. He agrees with Dene Tha' chief James Ahnassay, who sees the federal millions given aboriginals in the Northwest Territories along with access and benefits agreements signed with the pipeline project's proponents and wonders when his people, who live just across the Alberta border, will get their share.

The favicon is the Marathon logo! We're obviously dealing with a Gen Xer.

The twitter.

not Gen X

and a #bunnies and mechan.

Thanks, Hugh. That's interesting.

Serendipitous typo.

Of course, I have my doubts as to whether that's the real metacat.org story at all, but the whois data shows Toronto, so maybe it's right? It was like one of those Conde Nast Traveller back page "Where in the World?" puzzles.

And please pardon my repetitious prose; it was late and I was reading half a dozen open tabs at once and the PDF crashed my browser. Excuses, excuses.

Oh, hi! That's me. Hugh's story is better, let's go with that one. Technically, arse_hat, I do fall within Gen X.

So what's the photo?

Just a Badlands National Park shot after being run through the Bakumatsu Koshashin generator.