STOP SELLING TAR SANDS OF CANADA!

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STOP SELLING THE TAR SANDS OF CANADA! THE LAND BELONGS TO CANADIANS AND IT'S DAMAGING THE ENVIRONMENT

"TAR SANDS, THE SELLING OF ALBERTA"

Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta captures the intersecting storylines of a remarkable cast of characters eager to cash in on the oil boom in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Washington lobbyists, Newfie pipefitters, Chinese investors and Norwegian industrialists descend on tar-soaked "Fort McMoney", a modern-day Eldorado, where rents are sky rocketing and cocaine abuse is four times the provincial average. Up for grabs - a stake in a $100 billion energy bonanza and Canada's economic sovereignty.

This hour-length documentary, commissioned by the CBC, tracks the growth of the world's largest reserve of 'unconventional' oil. This Florida-sized "environmental sacrifice zone" has become Canada's contribution to U.S. energy security in the post-9/11 world. Yet, for many, the tar sands are a global warming disaster.

As Fort McMurray bursts at the seams, children from Thunder Bay to Cape Breton are made tar-sands orphans by their migrant-worker parents. Canada's petrodollar breaks the back of the manufacturing economy in the East. Cancer rates skyrocket downstream of Fort McMurray while Rocky Mountain glaciers melt and disappear. And all the while, Alberta crude goes south to U.S. markets while Eastern Canada pays ever more for insecure Middle East oil.

In an isolated region of the north, Canada's future is being carved out of the forest at a breakneck pace. Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta questions how much Canada is willing to sacrifice for a stake in this century's greatest energy bonanza.

Photo credit (top): Carl Patzel

VIDEO:
part 1/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilv8enuRp9g
part 2/2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrnima6ccLY&feature=related

   "get your head out of the sands"

      infrared picture of Alberta

WELCOME TO SAUDI ALBERTA

   Citzens of Alberta are protesting
      against selling the tar sands
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Photo credit (top): Carl Patzel

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# 100:

5:06 pm PST, Dec 29, Jennifer Gardner, Florida

# 99:

11:32 am PST, Dec 26, Alexandru Crasmariu, Canada

# 98:

12:43 pm PST, Nov 17, Chum R, Canada

# 97:

8:23 pm PST, Nov 4, Melania Padilla, Nicaragua

# 96:

5:18 am PDT, Sep 21, Simos Tarabatzis, Greece

# 95:

5:01 pm PDT, Sep 16, Tera Ebach, Canada
Let's start looking to use renewable energy sources or start properly cleaning up the mess this project leaves

# 94:

8:00 am PDT, Sep 16, Austin Kendall, Florida

# 93:

3:43 am PDT, Sep 11, LuCy J Boogaard, Netherlands

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2:17 am PDT, Sep 11, Tamarah Swensen, Netherlands

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4:54 am PDT, Sep 7, Angela Rhodes, Greece

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11:01 am PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania

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3:33 pm PDT, Aug 1, Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece

# 88:

1:06 pm PDT, Jul 31, Andi Alnwick, New York

# 87:

3:53 pm PDT, Jul 27, Jessica Belyk, Canada

# 86:

9:51 am PDT, Jul 22, ALPHA WI, Germany

# 85:

9:36 am PDT, Jul 10, Jayleen Johnston, Colorado
The oil we are getting is not worth the impact on our planet. Are we willing to sell out everything and destroy our future and that of our children for this oil.It is not worth it.

# 84:

11:20 pm PDT, May 25, Sophie Szeferowicz, France

# 83:

3:32 pm PDT, May 25, Irena Nikoloska, Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic Of

# 82:

10:02 am PDT, Apr 26, JAMES SULLIVAN, Illinois

# 81:

7:40 pm PDT, Apr 20, Jenny Vegan, United States Minor Outlying Islands

# 80:

12:13 am PDT, Apr 19, Julia Tawyea, Pennsylvania

# 79:

1:43 am PDT, Apr 7, Can Atik, Turkey

# 78:

11:01 am PDT, Apr 3, Jennifer Posanka, Illinois

# 77:

5:49 pm PDT, Apr 2, Bob Voutier, Canada

# 76:

3:30 pm PDT, Apr 1, Asia Garcia, Pennsylvania

# 75:

8:03 am PDT, Mar 31, Name not displayed, Canada

# 74:

7:43 pm PDT, Mar 29, R. Harrold, Canada

# 73:

12:46 pm PDT, Mar 29, Gary Beemer, Canada
I would recommend everyone out there to read Andrew Nikiforuk's book "Saboteurs" and the newest book on the oil sands, "Stupid to the Last Drop" by William Marsden.

# 72:

8:17 am PDT, Mar 29, Christi Leigh, Canada

# 71:

11:20 pm PDT, Mar 26, Victoria Thomas, Wyoming

# 70:

4:59 pm PDT, Mar 25, Rosanne Ramunno, Canada
Save our planet now!!!!!!!

# 69:

8:16 am PDT, Mar 25, Jean Thomas, Canada
Canada... wake up! Help stop global warming!

# 68:

4:16 am PDT, Mar 24, Catherine Smalley, United Kingdom

# 67:

1:59 pm PDT, Mar 23, TAYLOR WEIDNER, Colorado

# 66:

3:00 pm PDT, Mar 22, Jessica Lizotte, Canada

# 65:

2:43 pm PDT, Mar 22, Ines Seidel, Germany

# 64:

2:18 pm PDT, Mar 22, Maria Dixon, Spain

# 63:

11:47 am PDT, Mar 22, Julie Kennedy, Florida

# 62:

5:32 pm PDT, Mar 21, Barb Glanville, Canada
There is enough environmental damage in the this fine land. We don't need anymore. Government needs to start listening to it's people... not big industry.

# 61:

7:10 am PDT, Mar 21, Prima Baily, New York

# 60:

1:45 pm PDT, Mar 20, Barbara Schiano, New York

# 59:

7:41 am PDT, Mar 20, Hercolena Oliver, South Africa

# 58:

2:14 pm PDT, Mar 19, Alison Lambert, Rhode Island

# 57:

7:06 am PDT, Mar 19, Frank Walter, Arizona

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5:24 am PDT, Mar 19, Name not displayed, Wisconsin

# 55:

1:35 pm PDT, Mar 17, Vivien De Boer-Harm, Belgium

# 54:

12:29 pm PDT, Mar 17, Pam Boland, Georgia

# 53:

11:19 am PDT, Mar 17, Courtney Boeck, Michigan

# 52:

9:49 am PDT, Mar 17, Neshia Bacchus, Canada
Oil versus Environment , which one will it be?

# 51:

5:29 pm PDT, Mar 16, Silvia Ferreira, Portugal

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