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
HELP THEM
