Good morning folks, 

SMRA has been awarded second place by the Ecology Action Center for the Tooker Gomberg Award!  We were recognized in partnership with the Atlantic Salmon Federation for the release and widely shared underwater footage of Atlantic salmon spawning in Mckeens Brook, right where Atlantic Gold proposes to put wastewater and build a 230 foot high tailings impoundment. 

Thank you EAC we very much appreciate this honor. 

The Tooker Gomberg Award 

The Tooker Gomberg was a master with the media. From Golden Turkey Awards to Burying a Car to dressing as Robin Hood at the Toronto Stock Exchange, Tooker knew how to garner media attention. With Tooker as our "greenspiration", the Tooker Gomberg Award goes to the person or event that most creatively and brilliantly made the news in the past year. 

First Place

Ellen Page & Ian Daniel 

For their excellent documentary There's Something in the Water, highlighting the ongoing struggle against environmental racism in Nova Scotia. 

Second Place

The St. Mary's River Association and Atlantic Salmon Federation 

For filming and widely sharing underwater video footage of salmon spawning right in McKeens Brook, right where Atlantic Gold proposes to put wastewater from a proposed giant open-pit gold mine. 

Third Place

Don and Anna Osborn and the other residents of Kings County & Nina Newington and Extinction Rebellion Annapolis County and the Municipality of the County of Annapolis  

Who camped out at various sites to block glyphosate spraying on industrial forestry land, putting their bodies on the line to protect the forest.