Toxic Alberta is a highly provocative documentary on the oil sands (or more accurately "tar sands")...
It is by VBS TV (an offshoot of Vice Magazine) so you have to mind the salty language and the biased slant, but the pictures they show and the stories they portray of the environmental and social consequences of the tar sands development are very unsettling and should prick at the conscience of any oil consumer who sees them. I imagine the Tar Sands, The Selling of Alberta documentary that will be broadcast on CBC TV on Thursday March 13, 2008 at 9pm and on Saturday March 15, 2008 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld will address some of the same issues.
Public awareness is growing about this quagmire. With Alberta's and Canada's direct and indirect dependence on the tar sands do we have the will or the capacity to properly deal with this issue and will we or the rest of the world allow this development to continue and at a pace only limited by what the market will bear?
Scary times...
Public awareness is growing about this quagmire. With Alberta's and Canada's direct and indirect dependence on the tar sands do we have the will or the capacity to properly deal with this issue and will we or the rest of the world allow this development to continue and at a pace only limited by what the market will bear?
Scary times...
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