Environmental devastation of the land, water, and air - the largest industrial energy project in the world is extracting crude oil from bitumen found beneath the pristine boreal forest of Alberta, Canada. Effecting a land mass equivalent in size to Florida or England, Both industry and government are putting money before the health and security of its people and the environment.
Tar sands take 3 barrels of water to process every barrel of oil extracted. Ninety percent of this water becomes so toxic that it must be stored in tailing ponds. Unfortunately these ponds regularly leach pollution into the third largest watershed in the world.
Water depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination has become one of the most important issues facing humanity this century. Check out video on water issues:
and see the other videos to learn about the dark side of fossil fuels.
To learn more about tar sands, be sure to check out the featured film sources listed below.
Crude Sacrifice
http://www.crudesacrifice.com/
Dirty Oil (available to watch online)
A film written and directed by Leslie Iwerks. This documentary from 2009 exposes the dishonesty and greed of the Canadian and Alberta governments as well as the oil companies, who make huge profits at the expense of the environment, the wildlife, and the native communities who live near the tar sands of northern Alberta.
Stop Toxic Fuels Expansion
Support the Beaver Lake Cree Nation vs the Tar Sands
http://www.co-operative.coop/beaverlakecree
http://www.babelgum.com/3015242/downstream.html
http://h2oildoc.com/home/
http://www.petropolis-film.com/
http://www.gizmag.com/ionic-liquids-used-to-process-tar-sands/18214/
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