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Exploring Alberta’s Tar Sands: Fuelling whose economy?

With more than 173 billion barrels of oil recoverable with current technology and more than $150 billion in committed capital investment, the Alberta tar sands around Ft. MacMurray are considered the largest industrial project on earth.

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With more than 173 billion barrels of oil recoverable with current technology and more than $150 billion in committed capital investment, the Alberta tar sands around Ft. MacMurray are considered the largest industrial project on earth.

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VBS travelled to Ft. McMurray, Alberta to document the environmental, social, health and economic impact of the oil sands industry on the surrounding communities, Canada as a whole, and the rest of the world.


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Why the Tar Sands Blow
In Canada's tar sands, giant oil corporations are turning huge tracts of the pristine Boreal Forest, the Amazon of the N...
Dirty Oil: Alberta's Tar Sands Explained
Watch this video and listen to environmentalist, Andrew Nikiforuk, explain the environmental crisis occuring in Alberta ...
Interview with Gordon Laxer, Parkland Institute Director
Interview with Gordon Laxer, Parkland Institute Director
Gordon Laxer is the Director of Parkland Institute, a non-corporate Alberta research network that studies public policy ...
Effects of the Tar Sands: Fort Mackay, Alberta
Clips from an interview with Celina Harpe, an elder in the Cree community of Fort Mackay, about 40km downstream from Sun...
Janet Annesley,  Public Relations Representative with Shell Canada.
Janet Annesley, Public Relations Representative with Shell Canada.
Janet Annesley, a public relations representative with Shell Canada hosts a group of journalists and senior Shell execut...
Lawrence Crowfoot, of the Blackfoot Nation, describes his experiences living on a northern Alberta reserve
Lawrence Crowfoot, of the Blackfoot Nation, describes his experiences living on a northern Alberta reserve
Lawrence Crowfoot, member of the Blackfoot Nation, describes his experiences living on a reserve in northern Alberta nea...
Tom Goldtooth - No New Tar Sands Approvals
Tom Goldtooth and an Aboriginal speaker from Fort Chipewayn speak at Taking the Boom to the Streets, a march and rally a...
Birds and Canada's Tar Sands: Why America's Number 1 Source of Oil is Removing Millions of Birds
Dr. Jeff Wells explains how Canada's tar sands (US' #1 source of oil, over Saudi Arabia), will likely result in millions...
Tar Sands & Water (Part 1 of 5)
Interviews with mostly members of the Fort MacKay and Fort Chipewyan communities, discussing cultural and environmental ...
Mike Mercredi on his time working in the tar sands
Mike Mercredi on his time working in the tar sands
Mike Mercredi, member of the Athabasca Dene first nation speaks about his experience working in the tar sands and the im...
How the Oil Sands Got to the Great Lakes Basin: Pipelines, Refineries and Emissions to Air and Water
Refineries in the Great Lakes Basin are rapidly expanding to accommodate crude oil from the Alberta oil sands....
Toxic Alberta - Part 1
VBS travelled to Ft. McMurray, Alberta to document the environmental, social, health and economic impact of the oil sand...
Presentation Greg Stringham of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
Presentation Greg Stringham of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
 Greg Stringham, Vice President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers talks to the media about current an...
H2Oil
H2Oil
With hope and courage H2Oil tells the story of one of the most significant, and destructive projects of our time....
The Alberta Oil (Tar Sands): Canadian Prosperity- Global Nightmare
Although the Alberta tar sands may bring prosperity to Canada, it comes with a heavy price. ...
To The Tar Sands Trailer
To The Tar Sands Trailer
To The Tar Sands follows a group of young environmentalists across Alberta learning firsthand about the Alberta oil sand...
Tar Sands Training Camp
Tar Sands Training Camp
This year, from January 16th-18th, a group of activists, environmentalists and students gathered in the University of Sa...
A Tour of Syncrude "with commentary"
A Tour of Syncrude "with commentary"
This is a tour through the mining complex with "running commentary" from the tour guide. This is one of the largest oil ...
Tailings Pond
STOP the Tar Sands
2010 Corporate Campaign
Tar Sands Pipelines Map
Syncrude Oil Sands Upgrader Plant
Suncor Millenium Mine
Development Near Fort McMurray
Members of Athabasca Chipewyan/Dene First Nation
Repairing a Caterpillar 797B
Michael Mercredi
One of the world’s largest shovels
Tar sands oil at the Albian Sands mine
Shell’s Albian Sands mine
Caterpillar 797B
Bitumen picked from the ground
Separated from the sand
Map: Tar Sands Exports
The Second Largest Dam on Earth
Camp for Temporary Workers
where does the waste go?
  • British Columbia and the Alberta tar sands
  • Casey Camp-Horinek Speaking at Everyone's Downstream II
  • Dominion Radio Tackles the Tar Sands
  • Ep. 81 - From Tar Sands to Great Lakes
  • Shutting down the tar sands: Interview with Petr Cizek
  • Tar Sands Production to Increase Five Fold
  • The Indigenous Environmental Network: Protecting communities against oil industry pollution
  • The Tar Sands: The World's Largest Industrial Project
  • Tyson Slocum: Big Oil, Hot Profits & Global Warming
  • Alberta rethinks film funding rules...
  • Alberta Tar Sands to Increase Output 250% Over Next 10 Years
  • Canada prohibited from cutting gas and oil exports to the U.S.
  • Canada's Tar Sands Lobbyists Focus on Democrats
  • Crude awakening: Why are environmentalists asleep at the tar sands wheel?
  • For Many Women, Alberta's Boom a Bust
  • Freezing in the Dark
  • From the Bottom of the Pit
  • Oil Economy Driving Growth of Controversial Tar Sands
  • OIL SANDS-PART 1: Showdown at Ft. McMoney
  • OIL SANDS-PART 2: "Where I Come From Is Ground Zero"
  • Rhetoric and Reality Clash on Obama's First Foreign Visit
  • Tar Sand's Biggest Customer Has Second Thoughts
  • Tar Sands and the American Automobile
  • Will an American Surge Win the War for Oil?
  • Dogwood Initiative
  • Dominion Special Issue: TAR SANDS
  • Environmental Defence
  • Equiterre
  • ForestEthics
  • Oil Sands Developers Group
  • Oil Sands Truth
  • Oil Sands Watch Website
  • Tar Sands Time Out
  • Tar Sands Watch
  • The Parkland Institute

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