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Exploring Alberta’s Tar Sands: Fuelling whose economy?
 

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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...
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
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?

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