Film Screening – Peace Out: Energy Costs

6:30 PM
Gallery on Queen
406 Queen St. in Fredericton

Everyone is welcome to join STU Sustainability and the CEDAR project for a free film screening of Peace Out: Energy Costs at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, February 26 at Gallery on Queen, 406 Queen St. in Fredericton.

Zoey McNamara and Ivory Gadsden, co-chairs of STU Sustainability, and Susan O’Donnell, lead researcher of the CEDAR project at STU will introduce the film and facilitate a discussion with those who stay on afterward.

The film, part of the Cinema Politica series, explores the conflict in Canada’s vast Peace River region in B.C. that was flooded in 2024 for the Site C hydro dam. Site C is expected to begin operations in Fall 2025.

The film, released in 2011, raises important questions even more relevant today: When is it ethical to destroy an ecosystem? Is it possible to convince people to use less energy or do we need to keep on building more large energy projects? Can we balance jobs and economic development with environmental destruction? Who benefits the most from these big energy developments?

The film won the prize for the most popular Canadian documentary at the 2011 Vancouver International Film Festival. More info and watch the trailer HERE.

STU Sustainability acts as a voice for students advocating for sustainability on and off campus. CEDAR (Contesting Energy Discourses through Action Research) is a project in the Environment & Society program at St. Thomas University, located on the unceded traditional territory of the Wolastoqiyik.

This notice is also on the CEDAR website HERE.