5000 Dead Ducks: Lust and Revolution in the Oilsands

Lorene M. Shyba MFA PhD has been an international entertainment impresario, university professor, video producer, magazine publisher, advertising art director, TV talent, digital art curator, and sports car enthusiast among other things. She was the innovator of the interactive performance piece Spies in the Oilsands and the serious videogame The Pipeline Pinball Energy Thrill Ride Game. Her university affiliations have included the University of Calgary, McMaster University, and, Montana Tech of the University of Montana. Christopher D. Evans QC practiced criminal law in Canada for forty years and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He was a Bencher of the Law Society of Alberta for eight years and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1978. He has appeared regularly as counsel at all levels of court in Alberta and NWT as well as occasional appearances in the Supreme Court of Canada. C.D. Evans' previously published titles include Milt Harradence: The Western Flair and A Painful Duty: Forty Years at the Criminal Bar

Set in the fictional land of Alberia, this comedy satire kicks off with the discovery of 5000 dead ducks in PetroFubar Energy's oilsands tailing ponds. In the course of dodging the international public outcry that ensues, cold-blooded executives, zealous environmentalists, evil separatists, functional and dysfunctional lovers and megalomaniacal criminal lawyers scheme, screw, and march their way into a bizarre revolution.