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TAR SANDS
THE SELLING OF ALBERTA
What price is Canada willing to pay for a stake in this century’s greatest energy bonanza?
Director Tom Radford
Producer Peter Raymont
Associate Producer Niobe Thompson
World Premiere broadcast on Doc Zone
CBC TV - Thursday, March 13, 2008 – 9:00pm
Producer Peter Raymont
Associate Producer Niobe Thompson
World Premiere broadcast on Doc Zone
CBC TV - Thursday, March 13, 2008 – 9:00pm
“Three weeks after their invasion of Iraq , the U.S. government decides the Tar Sands should be counted as part of Canada ’s energy supply, propelling Canada from 21st to 2nd on the list of national oil reserves.”
- Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta
- Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta
“We’ve seen that security of supply as a consequence of 9/11 trumps cost of supply. And that is a fundamental shift” – Paul Michael Wihbey, GWEST Consulting
“You can’t build the world’s largest energy project and not change the nation.”
- Andrew Nikiforuk, Journalist and Author
- Andrew Nikiforuk, Journalist and Author
“I’ll say it a dozen times, people have to remember that the Oil Sands are owned by the people, they’re not owned by the oil companies.”- Peter Lougheed, Prime Minister of Alberta 1971-1985
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Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta
This one-hour documentary, commissioned by the CBC, tracks the growth of the world’s largest reserve of ‘unconventional’ oil. A Florida-sized “environmental sacrifice zone” has become Canada ’s contribution to U.S. energy security in the post-9/11 world. But 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 US 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.
Tar Sands features interviews with stake-holders from all sides including former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed (1971-1985); journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk; General (retired) Charles Wald, Former Deputy Commander, USAF; oil broker Paul Michael Wihbey, President of the U.S. company GWEST Consulting; Jeff Wiscombe, welder from Newfoundland and Stig Bergseth, Senior VP, STATOIL, Norway’s largest company.
After co-directing the award-winning Arctic Dreamer in 2004, two of Canada ’s most respected documentary filmmakers reunite as Director and Producer of Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta. Edmonton-based director Tom Radford’s career spans thirty five years, portraying the distinctive character of the West and North to Canada and the world. Producer, Peter Raymont is celebrating the 30th year of White Pine Pictures, having traveled to Ethiopia , Nicaragua , India , Rwanda , Chile and the High Arctic to direct and produce over 100 documentary films, including the Emmy Award-winning Shake Hands with the Devil: the Journey of Romeo Dallaire.
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To whom did it belong before the illegal Iraq invasion? America?
"Three weeks after their invasion of Iraq , the U.S. government decides the Tar Sands should be counted as part of Canada ’s energy supply"
To whom did it belong before the illegal Iraq invasion? America?
It wasn't considered 'viable' before because we didn't have the technology to extract it all. Counting the amount we are able to extract, we have the second largest reserves behind Saudi Arabia. Counting all of it, including the stuff we don't know how to extract, we have more than SA.
And what conclusion do we divine with a thread without a title or an originator?
Spooky! One of those bugs from the new code base. The title of the article isn't always picked up in the Forum.
here's the page for the show:
http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/tarsands/
Looks like it will be on again on Sunday, if anyone missed it.