LOL, CANADA is destroying its very own land for the fucking USA and the Bushes and Rumpsfelds in the name of Rockefeller (EXXON).... nobody EVER was so dumb before the CANADIANS lmfao...pmsl (((((: Canadians must be totally retards, DESTROYING Woods and natural enviroment, burning oxygene and poison the rivers and lakes...must be a wunderfull country...I want a CANADIAN IDIOT for my next Christmas Present, want to check how long HE can breathe without air (((((:
Bitumen is a sorry way to get a drop of fuel. It's like trying to extract coca powder out of a pan of brownies. The process suck, from killing the forest to pollution from the Texas refineries.
We are long overdue in ending our dependence on fossil fuels.
@rider4343 how lovely that you completely lack or choose to suppress any empathy for the suffering of another (a form of psychosis); & how delightful that you burst with pride and glee knowing the money you make by aiding in the destruction of the boreal forest and contributing to the cancers of the people who live downstream from the tarsands will buy you a new fancy car. you may find it amusing, but it is appalling when selfish people like you contribute to making the world a much worse place.
@spencerbeveridge part 3 and old people dumbass!!! this industrial project is making climate change far worse than any other project on the planet!!! climate change causes more catastrophys, such as for example tornadoes or hurricanes!!!!
in my opinion, and i'm incredibly sure many people will agree with me, one of the solutions for this disaster caused by man kind is to invest in clean energy like wind energy.
canada has lots of space and lots of wind for this.
@spencerbeveridge part 2 as we can this way and don't give a shit about upcoming generations". wow, you're the worst role model ever fuckkface!!!!! just
please shut the fuck up and let the real people talk. oh and in case if you didn't notice, think logically, cause in the end you're only killing yourself with this shit. you need trees to live, why the fuck would you kill something you need to live?! as well as other species, if they dissapear, so will we. the air pollution is killing young an
fuck you crude peace of shit!!!!! people like you are the dumb humans in today's world, which we don't need!!! we need clear thinking people, people that're open for new cleaner and greener ideas, not crude bastards like you, who don't give a shit about other living creatures which have the right to live on this planet too and that're being killed by this shit. people like you make this world worse, you ain't helping asshole!!! you're living under the motto "let's live as long
Was at the Anti-Harper protest in Ottawa yesterday... A great step towards raising public awareness here in Canada... Thanks to all who came out in support!
Take to the streets and participate in The International Day of Action Against Tar Sands on June 18th.
Individuals working together towards a common goal can make a difference! Stand united and let your voice be heard.
GHG emissions from the Canadian Oil Sands are equivalent to less than 0.5% than all American emissions. The oil sands are not the source of the problem. The source would be consumption of oil which leads to the demand of oil in the first place. Before you attack the origin of the oil, think of where it's going first, and why it is going there in the first place.
@antiestablishment16 you might want to consider the amount of GHG emissions that are coming out of the projects that are happening in the tar sands. I agree that the problem also lies in where the consumption of oil is happening, but it's the fact that the tar sands is an unconventional oil resource that makes it so outrageous.
u amarican bastards should quite wining about the tar sands because if we stoped opporation then u would not be able to get to work, not able to keep your should warm (or cool). we are the number 1 oil suplier to the united states and u are wining that we shouldnt suply u with it? shut the fuck up and deal with ur own problems like the BP oil spill, and canada will deal with ours.
@patrickcorliss how the fuck do you know, u live in australia , go fucking ride a kangaroo. most people bitching about the oil sands are snobby ass americans or retarded environmentalists. if canada stopped the oil-sands our economy would have a drastic change. especially alberta because we dont have taxes we get our money from our resources (logging, tarsands, pulp mills) so i doubt it will stop any time soon. and fuck the environment it wont be a real issue until ive been dead for 30 years.
GO FUCK YOUR SELF I HAVE A BABY AND I'M NOT HANDING IT A WASTE LAND CAUSE OF RETARDED PEOPLE LIKE YOUR SELF,,, FUCK THE TAR SANDS FUCK THE OIL INDUSTRY,,,
IT'S TIME PEOPLE GET UP STAND FOR OUR RIGHTS,, FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONS,,,,IM FED UP OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT THERE OWN LIFE TIME,,,,
@Masterfilm15 fuck ur baby i dont care! if the alberta oil industry fell than Canada's economy would be majority affected. and canada is only responsable for like 5% of the world GHGs and albertas about 33-37% of the GHGs in canada. so stop bitching and complaining. you cant comment until you have been there or work there
What a bunch of BS , you going shut down wind terbines next? they kill 100s of thousands of birds a YEAR . America does not want safe oil? , Fine get it from Venezuela , i know drill deeper in the GULF LOL , Just get on with a pipe line to the coast china wants it , CUT off America , NO OIL FROM CANADA TO USA
Watch them scream when gas hits 10 bucks a gallon
Alberta oil sands are the most overt example of the human insanity of GHG generation. Their exploitation must to be eliminated immediately, and extreme pressure must be applied to the Canadian government to do so. It is terrifying that moronic comments are still made denying climate change and wishing death on those that try to focus attention on the tar-sands atrocity. Go Canada ?? More like Go to Hell Canada. Thank Gaia for Greenpeace !
You are fucking retarded my friend. The day cock sucking limeys like you go back to living in caves is the day you can start telling the world what to do. But its to hard not being a fucking hypocrite right? Fuck you are stupid
This type of extraction of oil is the DIRTIEST type of extraction on Earth. For every barrel extracted (1 cubic meter), about 4.3 cubic meters of water is needed (and it is non-reusable) and about 2 tonnes of earth is dug up. The Athabasca river is a mere 600 meters away from the Tailing 'Ponds', and there have been many cases of deformed animal life downstream and increased cases of cancers in the human population. This project is so huge and so devastating, it can be seen from space.
@LaPhade You are fucking retarded, where did you get your info from? pull it out of a had did you. Next time you post anything on the Internet why don't you do a little research on the internet before you make yourself sound like a fucking retard for the entire world to see. Fuck your parents must be proud for producing a fucking retarded like you
This doesn't make me proud to be a Canadian citizen living in the prairies.
This is a very controversial topic because the main argument is: "What would you do without oil? Do you enjoy using ___ that was made by oil? Can YOU live without oil?" and the many other umbrella questions under those questions. Sure, it's tough to walk through the snow in freezing temperatures, but if our ancestors and grandparents did it, we can, too. As for the machinery... there's other energy alternatives.
@LaPhade Are you living without power and heat? No didn't think so. You are a fucking piece of shit, preaching o people to live a certain way before you do? Fuck me you are fucking retarded, do the world a favor and kill yourself. Fucking hypocrite
@blambo35 Can you NOT resort to insulting people? It just makes you look like you're a blathering idiot, who has no idea what they're talking about. Anyways, no, I am not living without heat. Fuck, I live in Canada. I didn't say "hey, stop all tar sands NOW!"- wean ourselves off of dirty oil, invest in cleaner energy (which would provide the same amount of jobs that the tar sands enlists, plus thousands more), and stop using MY/YOUR tax dollars to fund this. Fuck RBC for their hypocritical ads.
@LaPhade Invest in clean energy you say, so build the hundreds of thousands of wind mills (made from steel) that would cover the entire Provence of Saskatchewan? yep that's enviro friendly. Damn up more rivers which will flood hundreds of thousands of km of land destroying hundreds of rivers? Sounds green to me. Go nuclear? Or have hippies figured out to do with the waste and not said anything? Cover sask will solar panels? Where is this clean green energy you speak of?
@blambo35 I said invest in green energy. Invest in NEW technologies for green energy. The whole concept of green energy is still new, still a baby. If you're asking me where is all of this green energy, why don't you invent something new? Better? More eco friendly? It all boils down to human population, anyways. The more people on earth, the more energy is needed to sustain the population. Same goes for food, too. So what are your green plans?
Nah, it's the other way round. The population grew from one to six billion because of cheap oil which gave us industrial farming with trucking, combine harvesters, fertilisers and pesticides.
When cheap oil runs out, very soon now, the population won't survive. There will be wars, riots, famine and many bad things that we can't imagine now. Then the population will go back to one billion or less.
Electric cars ran on batteries as early as 1905. Hemp and wood can produce both oil and spirit methanol from cellulose. but wind and solar power is abundant in China and elsewhere. Destroying all the forests and wildlife of the entire North American continent isnt exactly the way to go.
I will start listening to people who say shut down the oil sand when they start walking everywhere, living in huts, and stop using you computer that required much oil in the manufacturing and transportation.
How much oil did james cameron use to make his billion dollar film? And now he is slamming the tar sands. People that drive cars sip lattes and live in big cities are all a bunch of insane hypocrites.
@mhasting22 It was about the first youtube videos I ever added to my account, the videos against the tarsands and the poisoning of the Athabaska river and large parts of Canada. Here in Norway we have started a movement called We Own Statoil - get out of tar sands now! To get our oilcompany out of the dirt industry. since monday its Facebook site has already got almost 900 members. Some norwegian green party activists have bought stocks in in our gov owned oil co. too, so they will try blocking
That's great except for the fact that norway is an insignificant socialist country that would freeze harder than an icecube if it didn't have oil. Besides, the Chinesse are more than willing to develop the oil sands. In fact they just invested 6billion. Think about that next time you are enjoying you cheap "made in China" crap.
@bangkoksuzy I think about it all the time. Thats why I never buy Chinese slave labour products. I hope the Chinese worker one day will produce for internal markets and get paid a decent living wage. By the way we have the largest production of hydroelectric power per capita in the world. Almost all our heating used to be electricity. Still most of it is. But lets hope China researches better energy sources and starts putting a solar panel on every large building. No?
It's a different story over in other countries. Over in North America and Europe, people have a different opinion on pollution and how it's harming the Earth, but elsewhere, the idea that littering, pouring garbage into lakes and doing other environmentally damaging things, isn't really all that hyped, nor is the government encouraging its citizens to change the way they are living. One of my co-workers has a sister who lives in Japan, and she says that people aren't really all..
Humans, although very intelligent about creating technologies, are very slow to realize any negative effects that they might create. :(
It's hard to find your way around not using 'slave' labour created materials when so many companies contract their way around things. Heck, the Body Shop can boast that they don't test on animals, but their suppliers and parent company sure as heck do!
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instead of b*tching and complaining, why don't you offer a solution! As for those protests, I've never seen them walking out to site to protest. Yet they drive in multiple 3/4 and 1 ton trucks! Lets all drive a prius, oh wait there a death trap!
Alright so without the tar sands, Canada's economy would be fucked! The Tar Sands arent that bad considering all the damn commuters or the suburban neighbourhoods. This video was well put together but does a bad job with actually having common sense.
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The tarsands are large areas were oil is not contained into conventional pools where we can pump it out of the ground. The oil in the tarsands is seeping into the river, lakes and ground water on its own. Its great that companies are mining the oil from the ground because its removing the toxins from the ground and selling it for energy use. Plus Canada is collecting large revenues to provide services to the Canadian people that include massive green projects.
I call BS on that. Did tons of research for this video and I don't know where you pulled that rabbit outta no where. (if it's just 'seeping' out, why do they have to go to so much trouble to get the oil outta there?)
Look, at the end of the day, whether you believe in global warming or not, the world is running out of oil. Look at all the crazy things we are having to do to extract it now.
@agitpopcom I think they were confused with how they worded that. The Athabasca tar sands are seeping out a substance (because it's at the surface) called bitumen, which is a very thick material which has the viscosity of molasses. Crude bitumen is a form or petroleum, but it needs to be heated to extreme temperatures to make it flow in order to create the crude oil. Bitumen itself has a very high boiling point, too (525 C), so it takes loads of energy.
The oil sands companies have strict provincial laws forcing them to hold ALL water on site even rain and snow. The even have to make public their methods for extraction and upgrade acordin to provincial law. Something that can't be said for saudis "clean" oil.
@japebarto5 Wow another hippie has a thought. Why don't you move so socialist china if capitalism sucks so bad. And by the way the computer you watched this on was made from a large multinational corporation, most likely manufactured from china, YAAAA!!! good for you hippie
@japebarto5 Oh wow aren't you a smart one, especially since you are watching this on a computer most likely manufactured in china with parts built around the world made out of plastic from OIL. Fuck me you are a bright one! Dip shit
Wow this video is a load of garbage... IT HARMS NATIVE PEOPLE AND THATS ALL! :-P Stupid idiots get your facts right and make a legit video instead of this piece of trash... :-P
These morons are quick to talk about the harm to the natives but are even quicker to ban seal products that consist of some native's livelyhood and forget that the royalties from the oil sands help pay for all the money flowing to the reserves.
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Canada as a country sucks so might as well make money.
I might start paying more attention to the hypocrites that make these types of video if they actually start offering real solutions instead of "shut the f@ckers down" while they drive around the country and fly around the world enjoying the transportation modes that the very oil sand they are trying to shut down are the very fuels that keep their cars and planes going. How about a real solution HYPOCRITES.
The tar sands will never be shut down. Far too much money, power, and time invested. Most major corporations, foreign (and not so foreign for my fellow canadians) governments which have invested billions have a viable interest in keeping it running. They don't care about the environment, they don't care about the climate, the don't care about you, or me. They care about money... and they run the world. Best of luck.
Before you watch this video, please consider some more solid fact based opinions regarding, both the bad and the good, of the Alberta oils sands. This video is absolute garbage, there are a lot more informative sources, and stay tuned into the Copenhagen Climate Summit before you draw conclusions about this incredibly horrendous video.
Canada is a global insult to all the work done on this issue. Our oil-backed Prime Minister Stephen Harper has his head stuck so far into the tar sands he can't see beyond his right-wing base in Alberta. It's time for ordinary Canadians to fight back against Harper's backwards fossil fuel policies and organize towards an efficient, safe, healthy and sustainable future with more jobs. Alberta's finances are in trouble due to an over-reliance on a single source for their economy. Harper: resign!
I love how you back up your claims with scientific evidence, you've got me convinced. Its not a single tar sands project you fucking doochbag, it's many different contractors and oil companies working indepently from each other.
I almost forgot, a great way to reduce emissions is to withdraw armed forces from bombing the shit out of countries for the oil and drug trade. Take those forces and have them clean the tar sands, and build better alternatives.
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Impeach OBAMA! Subscribe and e-sign the petition so we can force congress to investigate possible war and civil crimes. Where is the change? This isn't a race issue, so don't make it one. It's a matter of the masses demanding answers. No more lies and secrets! Its time to come clean Obama.
So you must work for the tar sands company or only listen to talk radio programs that are supported by them. How can you look at video footage like this and try to argue that this is anything other than insanity? How bad do things need to get before people who are in denial finally admit how far we've gone offcourse just to enrich a minute % of greedy bastards?
funny how the Internet is FULL of them trying to change our Health care system... why would they do that? Do you think they would care? MOLES! Pathetic Progressives posing as Canadians.
Tar sands are dirty oil, plain and simple, and the sooner we get off it the better. I know I know, oil will be around for a while. But let's not go in the wrong direction meanwhile. The expansion of this industry is reckless. Killin' video, by the way.
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LOL. This video just made me laugh. I really hope that no one takes that shit about the tar sands killing people seriously. What people don't seem to realize is that the tar sands account for just under 1% of global emissions. Over 95 percent of the water used is recycled and companies spend millions cleaning the remaining 5%. And C02 emissions from the tar sands aren't even a fraction of those that come from volcanoes and decaying forest vegetation every year.
Completely agree - well said, well said! This video was probably posted by someone who wants to shut down our Canadian economy. They want us to fear forestry, mining, and other like industries. We could be the richest, cleanest, best-run country in the world if only we would get our act together and tap the great wealth we've been blessed with. We just need someone in power who will ACT rather than TALK.... But the wonders of our government make that difficult. Gotta love bureaucracy!
wow, the comment section. what can i say? the green economy would also produce millions of man hours, and it has the potential to extend our pleasurable existence much longer than current production in the tar sands will.
garrys300: many people who live downwind dont have the same choices as you. not everyone can choose where they live. in fact, the people that live downstream of the tar sands didnt always live there, it was only after the europeans had them sign a treaty and forced them to.
in regards to your 2nd paragraph RAN.......we all have choices my friend I lived in ne edmonton(so called refinery row) for many years......never smelled anything that wasn't already in the city and you know this people didn't live downstream from ft. mac how? were you there ? or was it a greenpeace flyer?
hahahaha this is funny....i wonder how greenpeace got out to the tar sands, it wasnt in a prius. the showed up in about 30 4x4 trucks which burn the tar sand oil. i work in the tar sands and i love it. For the record these large companies spend billions in reclamation and they are trying to reduce emissions,
Go ahead and buy a prius, no doubt all the efforts are assisting in saving energy. What it will ultimately come down to is money though. There is money in dat dere earth, and only an idiot wouldn't dig it all out. Besides, people that think hybrid cars will save the earth will be sad to find out that if you shower with hot water and turn on the bathroom light that you've been reliant on the tar sands.. We can't run our lives on hopes and dreams, and if the world ends, i guess that's the price.
Yes we need to take care of the earth, but there is no way you can put the earth ahead of people. The earth was made for people, not the other way around. We need to be passionate about the right causes. If you don't like Alberta's oil don't drive a vehicle or heat your home w/ gas. All oil is dirty! This video makes me laugh.
Totally inspiring vid! Great piece of propaganda... but facts? Inspiring my gag reflex. Google "thar coal Pakistan". Tarsands emissions are no match. Don't believe me? Ask a two-mouthed fish. Oh, wait a minute...
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ROFL THIS IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
The tarsands are too far north in Alberta to really damage the lives of many people and are being well contained. If you really think tar sands can spread, you must be thinking with your green thumb. Tar sands are sand. If they were to spread it would have to be shipped out of Alberta, and Canada doesn't plan on giving away our best source of oil. So this video is completely incorrect and the makers of this video need to learn a thing or two about tar sand.
Actually, the Athabasca river is being polluted by the tar sands, which are right next to it, and the tailings ponds leech into the soil and into the river. The tailings ponds are held back by the worlds 2nd largest dam.... Also, the Athabasca River has a basin area of 95,300 km2. The river also empties into Lake Athabasca, downstream from the Tar Sands, the surface area of that lake is 7,850 km2. So I think it has the potential to damage water supplies for millions of Albertans, don't you?
kangphil i think you need to do a little research and you find that the Athabasca r. flows north to the slave r. which flows to the slave river which flows to the mckenzie to the arctic ocean,,,,,,,no millions of albertans there sorry old boy
Garrys300, the Athabasca river's mouth is at Lake Athabasca, that's the end of the river. Where the water ends up is rather irrelevant. Any pollution will be regional. 80% of AB's water supplies are in Northern, I would say that effects millions.
0.9 billion cubic meters of water from the Athabasca river was used for human use.
The Tar Sands being upstream from Lake A., would mean it flows north....I assumed one would understand that from the sentence.
"80% of AB's water supplies are in northern" ? I wasnt aware that water ran uphill Are you saying that Calgary pumps their water from the North instead of getting it from the Bow River? And Edmonton pumps theirs as well rather then pull it from the N. Sask. which just happens to run thru the middle of the city....sorry sir no cigar for you :)
Just because a river runs north, doesn't mean it runs uphill.
Calgary gets most of it's water from the Glenmore Reservoir, fed by the Elbow river, which has a huge catchment area.
80% of AB water supplied doesn't mean, 80% of the water used. It's there as a resource and 80% of it is in Northern AB. I wasn't saying that water was pumped 1/4 length of the province. You misunderstood.
sorry but I still have to question the 80% number,take a look at a map my friend because even if you inlude the muskeg waters between the caribou mountains and birch mountains along the peace r. and the muskeg water north of slave L. /Wabasca /Red Earth area it still does not encompass more then 10-15% of the total land mass with a population of who knows? I would venture less then !% of the total population?
the three largest communities north of the tar sands are all in the nw terr. funny we don't hear a lot of complants from the citizens of Yellowknife,Hay R. and Ft Simpson. Two of them being on the lake which is being (poisoned) and the other further downstream on the Mckenzie R
thanks for answering the question ....NOT ...and since water doesnt run up hill your last statement is just blah blah blah my friend.........since its local and diluted then i guess there is no problem right?......because noone lives there and 99% of the water is clean before it gets there then why all the fuss?
"Heavy metals: lead, mercury, iron, cadmium, aluminum and magnesium are present in water sources. If present in sediment, these reach the food chain through plants and aquatic animals. This causes heavy metal poisoning."
It's quite simple really
"Tailings contaminants include naphthenic acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, phenolic compounds, ammonia, mercury and other trace metals"
"The water found in oil sands tailings ponds is acutely toxic to aquatic organisms3 and mammals"
the tar sands leaked into the river long before oil companys started tampering in the area. I saw this with my own eyes in 1967 , in the early 80s I worked in an area west of wood buffalo park and south of the peace river where creeks never froze enough to cross over even in -40f . due to the high sulphur content all of these chemicals have been leeching for centuries. talk to some local natives and trappers instead of watching vids pieced together from photos patched together in some studio.
I said a lot of things in answer to kangphil ,who has never been there and never will go there . He pulled out a map and a green peace pamphlet and started making wild statments with zero crediblity. Now could you be a little more specific as to what "most " local natives say please? Also do you live any where near the afore mentioned places ?
@Garrys300 I''ve done alot of research on the tar sands and have spoken to many local natives who live downstream from the Athabasca River. They're either cancer survivors, or have lost family members due to rare cancers believed to be caused by chemical seapage into the river. These are people who belong to communities that have been fishing in this river for centuries, and only recently are finding mutated fish, and developping these rare cancers.
please dont get wrong i"m no fan of the tar sands but i'm also no fan of retoric and false information in order to run a fear campaign as some here have. could you enlighten me as to which communities please? what are the communities names? And what are these rare cancers? Are they perhaps in the gene pool? Are you aware the Athabasca river starts near Jasper? Thats a lot of" down river" to meet the Athabasca Lake many many sources of water dump into the river long before it gets to Ft Mac.
@Garrys300 no worries, intelligent debates are always welcome! Fort Chipewyan is the first community that comes to mind, they experienced abnormally high rates of bile duct cancer. When the community doctor started looking into it to do health studies, the government accused him of causing undue alarm and charged him its proven extremely difficult to conduct legitimate independent studies. Most environmental assessments are done by organizations that are fully funded by the oil industry.
@Garrys300 I think you also mentioned that you noticed oil deposits in the river in 67 and the 80s. It ends up Suncors first mine and upgrader were installed in Ft Mac in 1967, under J. Howard Pew. So it makes sense that you mightve noticed the effects at that time.
sorry to disappoint you katty .but i never saw anything in ft mac If i remember correctly there was a company called Canadian Bectel or something like that just north of town doing expermental work. i was on a survey crew about 50 miles north and 20 -30 miles west of ft mac. It was mid-winter about -30 and there was open water nearby in creeks,smelled terrible. I assumed this made it way to the river of knowing this. what i saw in80s was no where near ft mac and higher alt.
DaXdRaM's comment is complete bullshit, and he is the one who needs "to earn a thing or two about tar sand". We already *do* "give it away" - almost 60% of our 'Alberta energy' is exported, and under NAFTA's 'proportional sharing' clause, that percentage can never be decreased, even if we were to experience a severe energy shortage. And no it's not well-contained, and yes it can and does do damage beyond our oil-worshipping borders.
they don't want to pay or work at changing OLD habits(proven Profits)! Indeed there is a grass that can be made into ethanol, sledge grass or??? It sickens me that these OLD geezers that never seem to die off in oil, auto, banking or OUR govt, are WILLING to destroy their OWN air and water????? is this a GOOD role model for AMERICA???? Self-destruction and destruction of a planet for green paper????
The CFR glosses it over as "better here than from the Middle East" which is true. Continue with some oil now (as we must), impose carbon tax on all sources of oil according to CO2 content
(ONLY) FOR...
for development of robotic (and exponential) production of solar mirrors, PV and other RE, and the LiFePO4 (or better) battery. A totally green grid is possible with todays tech!
i am inspired by this video. i hope to see everyone in toronto on dec 12 at 7pm at the base of the cn tower for a peaceful candlelight vigil for climate justice.
Do I understand that there is no salvation outside jobs in Fort MacMurray?
And why not jobs anywhere in Canada? In new areas?
Why exactly in the Oil? Because there are in Alberta?
A dirty, dirty oil? An oil which is strangling the planet?
Sorry, but ... the issue is too important to remain in the hands of the Canadian parliament. A government, moreover so unrepresentative of Canadian Street east of Calgary. Political thought strictly representative of the vast oil industry of Alberta.
yes, if you want hard research on the tar sands, look elsewhere. but folks, do you really need it? we don't need a royal commission to know the tar sands is the product of short-sighted thinking on the parts of our governments and corporations.
think big, think beautiful, and then take a step, make it happen.
actually Steve its not really short sighted thinking.....I worked on one of the survey partys in about 1965. there wS small operation there at the time. the tars sands has produced billions of man hours of employment which in effect allows for producers of vids like this enough grant/welfare to sit back and sip lattes and whine about people earning an honest living
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Most of the oilsands will be produced in-situ (vs. mining as shown in the video). This leaves a far smaller environmental footprint with many wells being drilled from a small condensed pad fanning out underground to effectively drain the reservoir. This leaves a smaller environmental footprint than even conventionally produced oil and gas.
But hey, why bother with facts when you can make fancy videos right?
The pressure used in In-situ oil extraction results in direct contamination of under ground water sources (ie. aquifers are directly contaminated instead of surface water) If you think this is a greener option, I don't know what to tell ya.
great video. I live in Alberta. Home of most of Canada's oil sands. It is true that the oil sands kill Natives and wastes vast quantities of water. They pollute the air, land and water. Alberta does not have any air pollution regulations at all. I know. I live down wind of refinery alley here in Edmonton. Stop the oil sands. Put a special tax on oil sands oil . do something.
Choose? It is where I can afford to live. No, the wind does not blow 24 /7 from the refineries. Just today a University of Alberta guy released a study that proves the Government and industry have been lying about the amount of toxic waste being dumped by the tar sands. Government and the private sector working hand in hand to turn Alberta into a toxic waste dump. yay public private partnerships!
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Wow, yeah you can make a video that was just showing the good things about oil sands which are energy development in a country that has an open and fair stable political system. The largest company in the oil sands Suncor will spend almost half a billion dollars reclaiming it's first tailings pond this year. There is a strong regulatory framework under the Alberta Energy Resource and Conservation Board. They have a total of 75 directives that are designed to prevent environmental problems.
There have been no conclusive scientific studies done on HOW to clean up the tar sand tailing ponds. Historically, mining operations are unable to "clean up" the messes they make. ex.) arsenic contaminated tailing ponds in the NWT as a result of gold mining. The other issue is that the contaminants stored in tailing ponds don't stay there. The clean up would have to go further; all the way up the Mackenzie and include remedying the health of humans and animals upstream. They can't clean it up
LOL, CANADA is destroying its very own land for the fucking USA and the Bushes and Rumpsfelds in the name of Rockefeller (EXXON).... nobody EVER was so dumb before the CANADIANS lmfao...pmsl (((((: Canadians must be totally retards, DESTROYING Woods and natural enviroment, burning oxygene and poison the rivers and lakes...must be a wunderfull country...I want a CANADIAN IDIOT for my next Christmas Present, want to check how long HE can breathe without air (((((:
24moskito 2 weeks ago
whos behind it??? all of us. every single one of us! dumb ass green faggots
fortmcmurraycash 4 weeks ago
Tar Sands = Carbon Bomb
Bitumen is a sorry way to get a drop of fuel. It's like trying to extract coca powder out of a pan of brownies. The process suck, from killing the forest to pollution from the Texas refineries.
We are long overdue in ending our dependence on fossil fuels.
labelle4242 4 months ago
@rider4343 how lovely that you completely lack or choose to suppress any empathy for the suffering of another (a form of psychosis); & how delightful that you burst with pride and glee knowing the money you make by aiding in the destruction of the boreal forest and contributing to the cancers of the people who live downstream from the tarsands will buy you a new fancy car. you may find it amusing, but it is appalling when selfish people like you contribute to making the world a much worse place.
dwdeclare 6 months ago
my point is: Stop being an idiot and a brainwashed retard!!!!!
guitarplayeryzz 7 months ago
@spencerbeveridge part 3 and old people dumbass!!! this industrial project is making climate change far worse than any other project on the planet!!! climate change causes more catastrophys, such as for example tornadoes or hurricanes!!!!
in my opinion, and i'm incredibly sure many people will agree with me, one of the solutions for this disaster caused by man kind is to invest in clean energy like wind energy.
canada has lots of space and lots of wind for this.
so my point is: Think again id
guitarplayeryzz 7 months ago
@spencerbeveridge part 2 as we can this way and don't give a shit about upcoming generations". wow, you're the worst role model ever fuckkface!!!!! just
please shut the fuck up and let the real people talk. oh and in case if you didn't notice, think logically, cause in the end you're only killing yourself with this shit. you need trees to live, why the fuck would you kill something you need to live?! as well as other species, if they dissapear, so will we. the air pollution is killing young an
guitarplayeryzz 7 months ago
@spencerbeveridge
fuck you crude peace of shit!!!!! people like you are the dumb humans in today's world, which we don't need!!! we need clear thinking people, people that're open for new cleaner and greener ideas, not crude bastards like you, who don't give a shit about other living creatures which have the right to live on this planet too and that're being killed by this shit. people like you make this world worse, you ain't helping asshole!!! you're living under the motto "let's live as long
guitarplayeryzz 7 months ago
thumbs up if LUSH sent you here!
HardyUploader 7 months ago
fuck canada.
wipje41 7 months ago
@wipje41 Fuck you goof
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Was at the Anti-Harper protest in Ottawa yesterday... A great step towards raising public awareness here in Canada... Thanks to all who came out in support!
Take to the streets and participate in The International Day of Action Against Tar Sands on June 18th.
Individuals working together towards a common goal can make a difference! Stand united and let your voice be heard.
flowerdiary 7 months ago
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flowerdiary 7 months ago
hey people of utube who feel this oil industry has done enough join the group on facebook "STOP THE OIL INDUSTRY"
ADD YOUR FRIENDS ADD YOUR PARENTS ,,, ADD YOUR GRANDMA'S !!!!! ADD EVERYONE WE NEED TO START SAYING FUCK THIS HORRIBLE THING WE HUMANS ARE DOING!!!!
Masterfilm15 8 months ago
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aseireann 8 months ago
gtfo hippie queer
R4gN4r0k478 10 months ago
GHG emissions from the Canadian Oil Sands are equivalent to less than 0.5% than all American emissions. The oil sands are not the source of the problem. The source would be consumption of oil which leads to the demand of oil in the first place. Before you attack the origin of the oil, think of where it's going first, and why it is going there in the first place.
antiestablishment16 1 year ago
@antiestablishment16 you might want to consider the amount of GHG emissions that are coming out of the projects that are happening in the tar sands. I agree that the problem also lies in where the consumption of oil is happening, but it's the fact that the tar sands is an unconventional oil resource that makes it so outrageous.
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aseireann 8 months ago
This Spencer guy needs to learn how to spell.
If we don't ditch the tar sands, mother nature gets fucked.
If mother nature gets fucked, we get fucked.
Therefore if we don't fix the tar sands, we're fucked.
Anything helps, maybe kill a smoker or dent a Hummer, but for fuck sakes stop the Tar Sands and look for new environmentally friendly technology.
downsyndromedog 1 year ago 5
u amarican bastards should quite wining about the tar sands because if we stoped opporation then u would not be able to get to work, not able to keep your should warm (or cool). we are the number 1 oil suplier to the united states and u are wining that we shouldnt suply u with it? shut the fuck up and deal with ur own problems like the BP oil spill, and canada will deal with ours.
spencerbeveridge 1 year ago
@spencerbeveridge
If you think Canada has a clue, see:
Tar Sands Extraction - The Dirty Truth
On YouTube at watch?v=YkwoRivP17A
patrickcorliss 9 months ago
@patrickcorliss how the fuck do you know, u live in australia , go fucking ride a kangaroo. most people bitching about the oil sands are snobby ass americans or retarded environmentalists. if canada stopped the oil-sands our economy would have a drastic change. especially alberta because we dont have taxes we get our money from our resources (logging, tarsands, pulp mills) so i doubt it will stop any time soon. and fuck the environment it wont be a real issue until ive been dead for 30 years.
spencerbeveridge 9 months ago
GO FUCK YOUR SELF I HAVE A BABY AND I'M NOT HANDING IT A WASTE LAND CAUSE OF RETARDED PEOPLE LIKE YOUR SELF,,, FUCK THE TAR SANDS FUCK THE OIL INDUSTRY,,,
IT'S TIME PEOPLE GET UP STAND FOR OUR RIGHTS,, FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONS,,,,IM FED UP OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT THERE OWN LIFE TIME,,,,
Masterfilm15 8 months ago
@Masterfilm15 fuck ur baby i dont care! if the alberta oil industry fell than Canada's economy would be majority affected. and canada is only responsable for like 5% of the world GHGs and albertas about 33-37% of the GHGs in canada. so stop bitching and complaining. you cant comment until you have been there or work there
spencerbeveridge 8 months ago
I worked on #16 cooling tower fan today you can see all of them at :55 seconds in.
Rushworshiper92 1 year ago
What a bunch of BS , you going shut down wind terbines next? they kill 100s of thousands of birds a YEAR . America does not want safe oil? , Fine get it from Venezuela , i know drill deeper in the GULF LOL , Just get on with a pipe line to the coast china wants it , CUT off America , NO OIL FROM CANADA TO USA
Watch them scream when gas hits 10 bucks a gallon
YVRSURF 1 year ago
@YVRSURF You do know those glass buildings wipe out millions and millions of birds, right?
Sc0rPsX 1 year ago
Alberta oil sands are the most overt example of the human insanity of GHG generation. Their exploitation must to be eliminated immediately, and extreme pressure must be applied to the Canadian government to do so. It is terrifying that moronic comments are still made denying climate change and wishing death on those that try to focus attention on the tar-sands atrocity. Go Canada ?? More like Go to Hell Canada. Thank Gaia for Greenpeace !
SamNodes 1 year ago
You are fucking retarded my friend. The day cock sucking limeys like you go back to living in caves is the day you can start telling the world what to do. But its to hard not being a fucking hypocrite right? Fuck you are stupid
blambo35 1 year ago
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SamNodes 1 year ago
This type of extraction of oil is the DIRTIEST type of extraction on Earth. For every barrel extracted (1 cubic meter), about 4.3 cubic meters of water is needed (and it is non-reusable) and about 2 tonnes of earth is dug up. The Athabasca river is a mere 600 meters away from the Tailing 'Ponds', and there have been many cases of deformed animal life downstream and increased cases of cancers in the human population. This project is so huge and so devastating, it can be seen from space.
LaPhade 1 year ago
@LaPhade You are fucking retarded, where did you get your info from? pull it out of a had did you. Next time you post anything on the Internet why don't you do a little research on the internet before you make yourself sound like a fucking retard for the entire world to see. Fuck your parents must be proud for producing a fucking retarded like you
blambo35 1 year ago
This doesn't make me proud to be a Canadian citizen living in the prairies.
This is a very controversial topic because the main argument is: "What would you do without oil? Do you enjoy using ___ that was made by oil? Can YOU live without oil?" and the many other umbrella questions under those questions. Sure, it's tough to walk through the snow in freezing temperatures, but if our ancestors and grandparents did it, we can, too. As for the machinery... there's other energy alternatives.
LaPhade 1 year ago
@LaPhade Are you living without power and heat? No didn't think so. You are a fucking piece of shit, preaching o people to live a certain way before you do? Fuck me you are fucking retarded, do the world a favor and kill yourself. Fucking hypocrite
blambo35 1 year ago
@blambo35 Can you NOT resort to insulting people? It just makes you look like you're a blathering idiot, who has no idea what they're talking about. Anyways, no, I am not living without heat. Fuck, I live in Canada. I didn't say "hey, stop all tar sands NOW!"- wean ourselves off of dirty oil, invest in cleaner energy (which would provide the same amount of jobs that the tar sands enlists, plus thousands more), and stop using MY/YOUR tax dollars to fund this. Fuck RBC for their hypocritical ads.
LaPhade 1 year ago
@LaPhade Invest in clean energy you say, so build the hundreds of thousands of wind mills (made from steel) that would cover the entire Provence of Saskatchewan? yep that's enviro friendly. Damn up more rivers which will flood hundreds of thousands of km of land destroying hundreds of rivers? Sounds green to me. Go nuclear? Or have hippies figured out to do with the waste and not said anything? Cover sask will solar panels? Where is this clean green energy you speak of?
blambo35 1 year ago
@blambo35 I said invest in green energy. Invest in NEW technologies for green energy. The whole concept of green energy is still new, still a baby. If you're asking me where is all of this green energy, why don't you invent something new? Better? More eco friendly? It all boils down to human population, anyways. The more people on earth, the more energy is needed to sustain the population. Same goes for food, too. So what are your green plans?
LaPhade 1 year ago
@LaPhade
Nah, it's the other way round. The population grew from one to six billion because of cheap oil which gave us industrial farming with trucking, combine harvesters, fertilisers and pesticides.
When cheap oil runs out, very soon now, the population won't survive. There will be wars, riots, famine and many bad things that we can't imagine now. Then the population will go back to one billion or less.
patrickcorliss 9 months ago
Electric cars ran on batteries as early as 1905. Hemp and wood can produce both oil and spirit methanol from cellulose. but wind and solar power is abundant in China and elsewhere. Destroying all the forests and wildlife of the entire North American continent isnt exactly the way to go.
gunthaarz 1 year ago
I will start listening to people who say shut down the oil sand when they start walking everywhere, living in huts, and stop using you computer that required much oil in the manufacturing and transportation.
bangkoksuzy 1 year ago
How much oil did james cameron use to make his billion dollar film? And now he is slamming the tar sands. People that drive cars sip lattes and live in big cities are all a bunch of insane hypocrites.
syd28brent 1 year ago
This gave me chills! For two years I have campaigned against this God awful and destructive practice. Keep up the pressure. Thanks.
mhasting22 1 year ago
@mhasting22 It was about the first youtube videos I ever added to my account, the videos against the tarsands and the poisoning of the Athabaska river and large parts of Canada. Here in Norway we have started a movement called We Own Statoil - get out of tar sands now! To get our oilcompany out of the dirt industry. since monday its Facebook site has already got almost 900 members. Some norwegian green party activists have bought stocks in in our gov owned oil co. too, so they will try blocking
gunthaarz 1 year ago
@gunthaarz
That's great except for the fact that norway is an insignificant socialist country that would freeze harder than an icecube if it didn't have oil. Besides, the Chinesse are more than willing to develop the oil sands. In fact they just invested 6billion. Think about that next time you are enjoying you cheap "made in China" crap.
bangkoksuzy 1 year ago
@bangkoksuzy I think about it all the time. Thats why I never buy Chinese slave labour products. I hope the Chinese worker one day will produce for internal markets and get paid a decent living wage. By the way we have the largest production of hydroelectric power per capita in the world. Almost all our heating used to be electricity. Still most of it is. But lets hope China researches better energy sources and starts putting a solar panel on every large building. No?
gunthaarz 1 year ago
@gunthaarz
It's a different story over in other countries. Over in North America and Europe, people have a different opinion on pollution and how it's harming the Earth, but elsewhere, the idea that littering, pouring garbage into lakes and doing other environmentally damaging things, isn't really all that hyped, nor is the government encouraging its citizens to change the way they are living. One of my co-workers has a sister who lives in Japan, and she says that people aren't really all..
LaPhade 1 year ago
@gunthaarz ..that worried about the environment.
Humans, although very intelligent about creating technologies, are very slow to realize any negative effects that they might create. :(
It's hard to find your way around not using 'slave' labour created materials when so many companies contract their way around things. Heck, the Body Shop can boast that they don't test on animals, but their suppliers and parent company sure as heck do!
LaPhade 1 year ago
@mhasting22
Do you like using you computer? How much oil went into it's production?
bangkoksuzy 1 year ago
No Oil=everyone dies
JCJ77 1 year ago
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achmedlegend 1 year ago
@achmedlegend doesn't work SAGE
jimmybrite 1 year ago
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instead of b*tching and complaining, why don't you offer a solution! As for those protests, I've never seen them walking out to site to protest. Yet they drive in multiple 3/4 and 1 ton trucks! Lets all drive a prius, oh wait there a death trap!
murial8 1 year ago
Alright so without the tar sands, Canada's economy would be fucked! The Tar Sands arent that bad considering all the damn commuters or the suburban neighbourhoods. This video was well put together but does a bad job with actually having common sense.
ThatcarazyGuy 2 years ago
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The tarsands are large areas were oil is not contained into conventional pools where we can pump it out of the ground. The oil in the tarsands is seeping into the river, lakes and ground water on its own. Its great that companies are mining the oil from the ground because its removing the toxins from the ground and selling it for energy use. Plus Canada is collecting large revenues to provide services to the Canadian people that include massive green projects.
faroyukon 2 years ago
I call BS on that. Did tons of research for this video and I don't know where you pulled that rabbit outta no where. (if it's just 'seeping' out, why do they have to go to so much trouble to get the oil outta there?)
Look, at the end of the day, whether you believe in global warming or not, the world is running out of oil. Look at all the crazy things we are having to do to extract it now.
Green energy NOW!
agitpopcom 2 years ago 10
@agitpopcom I think they were confused with how they worded that. The Athabasca tar sands are seeping out a substance (because it's at the surface) called bitumen, which is a very thick material which has the viscosity of molasses. Crude bitumen is a form or petroleum, but it needs to be heated to extreme temperatures to make it flow in order to create the crude oil. Bitumen itself has a very high boiling point, too (525 C), so it takes loads of energy.
LaPhade 1 year ago
@agitpopcom Brown energy. In your shorts. You are Al Gore's hemorrhoid.
mcleanartists 5 months ago in playlist Climate
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See watch?v=YkwoRivP17A
patrickcorliss 9 months ago
The oil sands companies have strict provincial laws forcing them to hold ALL water on site even rain and snow. The even have to make public their methods for extraction and upgrade acordin to provincial law. Something that can't be said for saudis "clean" oil.
LightningGurl 2 years ago
@LightningGurl And you believe that shit?
jimmybrite 1 year ago
Amazing video! F*CK THE TAR SANDS AND THE CAPITALIST BASTARDS!
japebarto5 2 years ago 17
@japebarto5 Wow another hippie has a thought. Why don't you move so socialist china if capitalism sucks so bad. And by the way the computer you watched this on was made from a large multinational corporation, most likely manufactured from china, YAAAA!!! good for you hippie
blambo35 1 year ago
@japebarto5 Oh wow aren't you a smart one, especially since you are watching this on a computer most likely manufactured in china with parts built around the world made out of plastic from OIL. Fuck me you are a bright one! Dip shit
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aseireann 8 months ago
Blah, blah, blah...
FUCKIN' ACT, COMRADE. THERE'S NO MORE TIME TO DEBATE.
Tovarichtch 2 years ago
All those oil sands complainers are the biggest consumers out there and that consumerism is financing the oil sands. Keep it up idiots!
bangkoksuzy 2 years ago
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kattybizzle33 1 year ago
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this is hippy bull sh*t
danvri 2 years ago
these tar pits will swallow us all
as ancient dinosaurs know too well
get unstuck and get unplugged
backwoodsgps 2 years ago
Wow this video is a load of garbage... IT HARMS NATIVE PEOPLE AND THATS ALL! :-P Stupid idiots get your facts right and make a legit video instead of this piece of trash... :-P
jopitzoo 2 years ago
These morons are quick to talk about the harm to the natives but are even quicker to ban seal products that consist of some native's livelyhood and forget that the royalties from the oil sands help pay for all the money flowing to the reserves.
bangkoksuzy 2 years ago
This video reminds me of the DaVinci Code. Gets your attention, but it's just fiction and not based on fact.
sandyoil 2 years ago
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Canada as a country sucks so might as well make money.
I might start paying more attention to the hypocrites that make these types of video if they actually start offering real solutions instead of "shut the f@ckers down" while they drive around the country and fly around the world enjoying the transportation modes that the very oil sand they are trying to shut down are the very fuels that keep their cars and planes going. How about a real solution HYPOCRITES.
bangkoksuzy 2 years ago
The tar sands will never be shut down. Far too much money, power, and time invested. Most major corporations, foreign (and not so foreign for my fellow canadians) governments which have invested billions have a viable interest in keeping it running. They don't care about the environment, they don't care about the climate, the don't care about you, or me. They care about money... and they run the world. Best of luck.
iwonttell19888 2 years ago
One of the only bad things about Canada, but its fucking bad.
sourtreecat 2 years ago
Total madness.
FMMAROTO 2 years ago 2
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Canada, land of hypocrites and liars, all wrapped with a layer of politeness.
numako999 2 years ago
HA! The future is never "now" since now is the present.
xAxTxHxFx 2 years ago 3
I think they mean the future is [shaped] now.
kangphil 2 years ago
Before you watch this video, please consider some more solid fact based opinions regarding, both the bad and the good, of the Alberta oils sands. This video is absolute garbage, there are a lot more informative sources, and stay tuned into the Copenhagen Climate Summit before you draw conclusions about this incredibly horrendous video.
dwoofholla 2 years ago
Canada is a global insult to all the work done on this issue. Our oil-backed Prime Minister Stephen Harper has his head stuck so far into the tar sands he can't see beyond his right-wing base in Alberta. It's time for ordinary Canadians to fight back against Harper's backwards fossil fuel policies and organize towards an efficient, safe, healthy and sustainable future with more jobs. Alberta's finances are in trouble due to an over-reliance on a single source for their economy. Harper: resign!
TVACdotCA 2 years ago 3
I love how you back up your claims with scientific evidence, you've got me convinced. Its not a single tar sands project you fucking doochbag, it's many different contractors and oil companies working indepently from each other.
avd420 2 years ago
I almost forgot, a great way to reduce emissions is to withdraw armed forces from bombing the shit out of countries for the oil and drug trade. Take those forces and have them clean the tar sands, and build better alternatives.
lighthammar 2 years ago 2
start building your own electric car. There's plenty of free videos and instructions on it. Reduce demand and reduce projects like this spreading.
lighthammar 2 years ago
The Tar Sands Kills puppies?
The Tar Sands takes candy from babies?
Silveracity 2 years ago
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My bet is the guy who made this video has got some kind of rag around his head...
RonFella 2 years ago
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nielsvileyn 2 years ago
Where's the proof? The science has been proven to be faked. Stop the madness. Plants breath CO2! Save the plants!
RonFella 2 years ago
Fact: It takes 3 barrels worth of fossil fuel energy to produce one barrel of crude oil from the tar sands.
Fact: The oil in the tar sands has to be literally boiled to extract it, hence the need for so much fossil fuel energy.
Where's your proof of the science being proven as fake?
kangphil 2 years ago 2
Fact: The Candians are getting filthy rich from using this natural resource.
Fact: If either statement above were remotely true they wouldn't be.
RonFella 2 years ago
The reason they ARE getting filthy rich is due to oil prices. It costs $28 per barrel of bitumen, and oil is selling at around $72 a barrel currently.
It's cheap, dirty oil. Shell makes twice as much profit from a barrel of AB oil than a barrel of Saudi oil.
Those statements are true, and Albertans are getting filthy rich off of it as oil companies are making huge profits from the oil.
kangphil 2 years ago
Sounds great. So what's the problem? Jealous? Global warming flat Earther or what?
RonFella 2 years ago
The problem? Drive to Fort McMurray and through the tar sands, then maybe you can tell me. You sure aren't listening to any counter arguments.
kangphil 2 years ago
Done so many a time. Oh the snow is black! Oh dear me! Get a life dude. Nothing lives there.
RonFella 2 years ago
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kattybizzle33 1 year ago
Maybe the makers of this video should give up driving, if they don't like getting the oil !
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daltongang79 2 years ago
Who is making money off of climate change?
workingclasssociety 2 years ago
So you must work for the tar sands company or only listen to talk radio programs that are supported by them. How can you look at video footage like this and try to argue that this is anything other than insanity? How bad do things need to get before people who are in denial finally admit how far we've gone offcourse just to enrich a minute % of greedy bastards?
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TheNomorelockdoors 2 years ago
funny how the Internet is FULL of them trying to change our Health care system... why would they do that? Do you think they would care? MOLES! Pathetic Progressives posing as Canadians.
tampabayproductions 2 years ago
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tampabayproductions 2 years ago
Tar sands are dirty oil, plain and simple, and the sooner we get off it the better. I know I know, oil will be around for a while. But let's not go in the wrong direction meanwhile. The expansion of this industry is reckless. Killin' video, by the way.
kennybruno86 2 years ago
Hey that is bad
I wouldn't mind being empoyed there though, probably make a ton of money.
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ToniMaples 2 years ago
LOL. This video just made me laugh. I really hope that no one takes that shit about the tar sands killing people seriously. What people don't seem to realize is that the tar sands account for just under 1% of global emissions. Over 95 percent of the water used is recycled and companies spend millions cleaning the remaining 5%. And C02 emissions from the tar sands aren't even a fraction of those that come from volcanoes and decaying forest vegetation every year.
qweasd8748 2 years ago
ALL of human emissions is insignificant to volcanoes and forest vegetation
ZarrV2 2 years ago
Completely agree - well said, well said! This video was probably posted by someone who wants to shut down our Canadian economy. They want us to fear forestry, mining, and other like industries. We could be the richest, cleanest, best-run country in the world if only we would get our act together and tap the great wealth we've been blessed with. We just need someone in power who will ACT rather than TALK.... But the wonders of our government make that difficult. Gotta love bureaucracy!
JVF1689 2 years ago 2
wow, the comment section. what can i say? the green economy would also produce millions of man hours, and it has the potential to extend our pleasurable existence much longer than current production in the tar sands will.
garrys300: many people who live downwind dont have the same choices as you. not everyone can choose where they live. in fact, the people that live downstream of the tar sands didnt always live there, it was only after the europeans had them sign a treaty and forced them to.
RANsympathizer 2 years ago
in regards to your 2nd paragraph RAN.......we all have choices my friend I lived in ne edmonton(so called refinery row) for many years......never smelled anything that wasn't already in the city and you know this people didn't live downstream from ft. mac how? were you there ? or was it a greenpeace flyer?
Garrys300 2 years ago
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leclercri 2 years ago
hahahaha this is funny....i wonder how greenpeace got out to the tar sands, it wasnt in a prius. the showed up in about 30 4x4 trucks which burn the tar sand oil. i work in the tar sands and i love it. For the record these large companies spend billions in reclamation and they are trying to reduce emissions,
Edbailey123 2 years ago
Go ahead and buy a prius, no doubt all the efforts are assisting in saving energy. What it will ultimately come down to is money though. There is money in dat dere earth, and only an idiot wouldn't dig it all out. Besides, people that think hybrid cars will save the earth will be sad to find out that if you shower with hot water and turn on the bathroom light that you've been reliant on the tar sands.. We can't run our lives on hopes and dreams, and if the world ends, i guess that's the price.
cj7135rocks 2 years ago
Yes we need to take care of the earth, but there is no way you can put the earth ahead of people. The earth was made for people, not the other way around. We need to be passionate about the right causes. If you don't like Alberta's oil don't drive a vehicle or heat your home w/ gas. All oil is dirty! This video makes me laugh.
T410ce 2 years ago
Agreed, although i think they mean that the oil they use should come from Arabia.. Then it's not bad **rolls eyes**
cj7135rocks 2 years ago
FYI its Alberta's oil not Canada's
travflo 2 years ago
Actully it's Wood Buffalo Regions oil, not Alberta's.
avd420 2 years ago
Totally inspiring vid! Great piece of propaganda... but facts? Inspiring my gag reflex. Google "thar coal Pakistan". Tarsands emissions are no match. Don't believe me? Ask a two-mouthed fish. Oh, wait a minute...
tarsansbro 2 years ago 2
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ROFL THIS IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
The tarsands are too far north in Alberta to really damage the lives of many people and are being well contained. If you really think tar sands can spread, you must be thinking with your green thumb. Tar sands are sand. If they were to spread it would have to be shipped out of Alberta, and Canada doesn't plan on giving away our best source of oil. So this video is completely incorrect and the makers of this video need to learn a thing or two about tar sand.
DaXdRaM 2 years ago
Actually, the Athabasca river is being polluted by the tar sands, which are right next to it, and the tailings ponds leech into the soil and into the river. The tailings ponds are held back by the worlds 2nd largest dam.... Also, the Athabasca River has a basin area of 95,300 km2. The river also empties into Lake Athabasca, downstream from the Tar Sands, the surface area of that lake is 7,850 km2. So I think it has the potential to damage water supplies for millions of Albertans, don't you?
kangphil 2 years ago
kangphil i think you need to do a little research and you find that the Athabasca r. flows north to the slave r. which flows to the slave river which flows to the mckenzie to the arctic ocean,,,,,,,no millions of albertans there sorry old boy
Garrys300 2 years ago
Garrys300, the Athabasca river's mouth is at Lake Athabasca, that's the end of the river. Where the water ends up is rather irrelevant. Any pollution will be regional. 80% of AB's water supplies are in Northern, I would say that effects millions.
0.9 billion cubic meters of water from the Athabasca river was used for human use.
The Tar Sands being upstream from Lake A., would mean it flows north....I assumed one would understand that from the sentence.
kangphil 2 years ago
"80% of AB's water supplies are in northern" ? I wasnt aware that water ran uphill Are you saying that Calgary pumps their water from the North instead of getting it from the Bow River? And Edmonton pumps theirs as well rather then pull it from the N. Sask. which just happens to run thru the middle of the city....sorry sir no cigar for you :)
Garrys300 2 years ago
Just because a river runs north, doesn't mean it runs uphill.
Calgary gets most of it's water from the Glenmore Reservoir, fed by the Elbow river, which has a huge catchment area.
80% of AB water supplied doesn't mean, 80% of the water used. It's there as a resource and 80% of it is in Northern AB. I wasn't saying that water was pumped 1/4 length of the province. You misunderstood.
kangphil 2 years ago
sorry but I still have to question the 80% number,take a look at a map my friend because even if you inlude the muskeg waters between the caribou mountains and birch mountains along the peace r. and the muskeg water north of slave L. /Wabasca /Red Earth area it still does not encompass more then 10-15% of the total land mass with a population of who knows? I would venture less then !% of the total population?
Garrys300 2 years ago
the three largest communities north of the tar sands are all in the nw terr. funny we don't hear a lot of complants from the citizens of Yellowknife,Hay R. and Ft Simpson. Two of them being on the lake which is being (poisoned) and the other further downstream on the Mckenzie R
Garrys300 2 years ago
Pollution would be local. There's such a thing as dilution as the river water flows elsewhere, the catchment area for each river is different.
kangphil 2 years ago
thanks for answering the question ....NOT ...and since water doesnt run up hill your last statement is just blah blah blah my friend.........since its local and diluted then i guess there is no problem right?......because noone lives there and 99% of the water is clean before it gets there then why all the fuss?
Garrys300 2 years ago
It doesn't matter how far south they are. It's still going to do environmental damage to the waters.
CelesteK 2 years ago
and how?? can you enlighten us all please?
Garrys300 2 years ago
How?
"Heavy metals: lead, mercury, iron, cadmium, aluminum and magnesium are present in water sources. If present in sediment, these reach the food chain through plants and aquatic animals. This causes heavy metal poisoning."
It's quite simple really
"Tailings contaminants include naphthenic acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, phenolic compounds, ammonia, mercury and other trace metals"
"The water found in oil sands tailings ponds is acutely toxic to aquatic organisms3 and mammals"
kangphil 2 years ago 3
the tar sands leaked into the river long before oil companys started tampering in the area. I saw this with my own eyes in 1967 , in the early 80s I worked in an area west of wood buffalo park and south of the peace river where creeks never froze enough to cross over even in -40f . due to the high sulphur content all of these chemicals have been leeching for centuries. talk to some local natives and trappers instead of watching vids pieced together from photos patched together in some studio.
Garrys300 2 years ago
@Garrys300 most local natives say the opposite of what you just said..
kattybizzle33 1 year ago
I said a lot of things in answer to kangphil ,who has never been there and never will go there . He pulled out a map and a green peace pamphlet and started making wild statments with zero crediblity. Now could you be a little more specific as to what "most " local natives say please? Also do you live any where near the afore mentioned places ?
Garrys300 1 year ago
@Garrys300 I''ve done alot of research on the tar sands and have spoken to many local natives who live downstream from the Athabasca River. They're either cancer survivors, or have lost family members due to rare cancers believed to be caused by chemical seapage into the river. These are people who belong to communities that have been fishing in this river for centuries, and only recently are finding mutated fish, and developping these rare cancers.
kattybizzle33 1 year ago
please dont get wrong i"m no fan of the tar sands but i'm also no fan of retoric and false information in order to run a fear campaign as some here have. could you enlighten me as to which communities please? what are the communities names? And what are these rare cancers? Are they perhaps in the gene pool? Are you aware the Athabasca river starts near Jasper? Thats a lot of" down river" to meet the Athabasca Lake many many sources of water dump into the river long before it gets to Ft Mac.
Garrys300 1 year ago
@Garrys300 no worries, intelligent debates are always welcome! Fort Chipewyan is the first community that comes to mind, they experienced abnormally high rates of bile duct cancer. When the community doctor started looking into it to do health studies, the government accused him of causing undue alarm and charged him its proven extremely difficult to conduct legitimate independent studies. Most environmental assessments are done by organizations that are fully funded by the oil industry.
kattybizzle33 1 year ago
@Garrys300 I think you also mentioned that you noticed oil deposits in the river in 67 and the 80s. It ends up Suncors first mine and upgrader were installed in Ft Mac in 1967, under J. Howard Pew. So it makes sense that you mightve noticed the effects at that time.
kattybizzle33 1 year ago
sorry to disappoint you katty .but i never saw anything in ft mac If i remember correctly there was a company called Canadian Bectel or something like that just north of town doing expermental work. i was on a survey crew about 50 miles north and 20 -30 miles west of ft mac. It was mid-winter about -30 and there was open water nearby in creeks,smelled terrible. I assumed this made it way to the river of knowing this. what i saw in80s was no where near ft mac and higher alt.
Garrys300 1 year ago
DaXdRaM's comment is complete bullshit, and he is the one who needs "to earn a thing or two about tar sand". We already *do* "give it away" - almost 60% of our 'Alberta energy' is exported, and under NAFTA's 'proportional sharing' clause, that percentage can never be decreased, even if we were to experience a severe energy shortage. And no it's not well-contained, and yes it can and does do damage beyond our oil-worshipping borders.
LynX1969 2 years ago 3
they don't want to pay or work at changing OLD habits(proven Profits)! Indeed there is a grass that can be made into ethanol, sledge grass or??? It sickens me that these OLD geezers that never seem to die off in oil, auto, banking or OUR govt, are WILLING to destroy their OWN air and water????? is this a GOOD role model for AMERICA???? Self-destruction and destruction of a planet for green paper????
bkbbk5 2 years ago 3
Alberta's tar sands operation is the world's biggest single industrial source of carbon emissions.
steveaparr 2 years ago 4
It's not run by a single company or even regulated by a single branch of government, therefore, it is not a single "project".
avd420 2 years ago 2
Awesome!
The CFR glosses it over as "better here than from the Middle East" which is true. Continue with some oil now (as we must), impose carbon tax on all sources of oil according to CO2 content
(ONLY) FOR...
for development of robotic (and exponential) production of solar mirrors, PV and other RE, and the LiFePO4 (or better) battery. A totally green grid is possible with todays tech!
fireofenergy 2 years ago 3
Awesome vid, I love the message and how it is presented. Keep em coming!
lacroixma 2 years ago 3
i am inspired by this video. i hope to see everyone in toronto on dec 12 at 7pm at the base of the cn tower for a peaceful candlelight vigil for climate justice.
SEE YOU THERE!! XOXO
t3rs3 2 years ago 4
Fantastic video! Does anyone know the name of the song by DJ Champion?
wigmachine 2 years ago 4
@wigmachine the mellow beginning tune is 'The Monstre' and then the more rockin' tune is called 'Sannoi's Beach'
agitpopcom 2 years ago
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kangphil 2 years ago
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this is the dumbest piece of garbage i've seen all day. i want my 3 minutes back you hippies
mtimmins83 2 years ago
Do I understand that there is no salvation outside jobs in Fort MacMurray?
And why not jobs anywhere in Canada? In new areas?
Why exactly in the Oil? Because there are in Alberta?
A dirty, dirty oil? An oil which is strangling the planet?
Sorry, but ... the issue is too important to remain in the hands of the Canadian parliament. A government, moreover so unrepresentative of Canadian Street east of Calgary. Political thought strictly representative of the vast oil industry of Alberta.
leclercri 2 years ago 3
If you please, all released.
Record Urgent.
Nothing to expect from Harper.
S'il-vous-plait, diffusé tous.
Dossier Urgent.
Rien à attendre de Harper.
leclercri 2 years ago 2
a bit unrelated to the Tar Sands, even though those stinky oil sands should really be taken care off. Climate crime I call that.
The video is fantastic. Great job agit-pop, you guys really pulled a great graphical looking, informative and entertaining video together! thumbs up!
DesertGS 2 years ago 4
amazing. love the video. big kudos to you folks.
yes, if you want hard research on the tar sands, look elsewhere. but folks, do you really need it? we don't need a royal commission to know the tar sands is the product of short-sighted thinking on the parts of our governments and corporations.
think big, think beautiful, and then take a step, make it happen.
steveaparr 2 years ago 6
actually Steve its not really short sighted thinking.....I worked on one of the survey partys in about 1965. there wS small operation there at the time. the tars sands has produced billions of man hours of employment which in effect allows for producers of vids like this enough grant/welfare to sit back and sip lattes and whine about people earning an honest living
Garrys300 2 years ago
Thank you for this very interesting video. Wish people could awaken and stop this destruction!
Thank you lepassant50 for sharing.
Annie0854 2 years ago 4
I hope they will open their eyes to politicians to save our planet
missielabelle2008 2 years ago 2
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Most of the oilsands will be produced in-situ (vs. mining as shown in the video). This leaves a far smaller environmental footprint with many wells being drilled from a small condensed pad fanning out underground to effectively drain the reservoir. This leaves a smaller environmental footprint than even conventionally produced oil and gas.
But hey, why bother with facts when you can make fancy videos right?
zorlamak 2 years ago
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leclercri 2 years ago
The pressure used in In-situ oil extraction results in direct contamination of under ground water sources (ie. aquifers are directly contaminated instead of surface water) If you think this is a greener option, I don't know what to tell ya.
randi29able 2 years ago 7
great video. I live in Alberta. Home of most of Canada's oil sands. It is true that the oil sands kill Natives and wastes vast quantities of water. They pollute the air, land and water. Alberta does not have any air pollution regulations at all. I know. I live down wind of refinery alley here in Edmonton. Stop the oil sands. Put a special tax on oil sands oil . do something.
copcorona 2 years ago 10
copcorona......if it is sooooo horrible why do you choose to live downwind from refinery alley?? by the way which way does the wind blow 24/7 ?
Garrys300 2 years ago
Choose? It is where I can afford to live. No, the wind does not blow 24 /7 from the refineries. Just today a University of Alberta guy released a study that proves the Government and industry have been lying about the amount of toxic waste being dumped by the tar sands. Government and the private sector working hand in hand to turn Alberta into a toxic waste dump. yay public private partnerships!
copcorona 2 years ago
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Wow, yeah you can make a video that was just showing the good things about oil sands which are energy development in a country that has an open and fair stable political system. The largest company in the oil sands Suncor will spend almost half a billion dollars reclaiming it's first tailings pond this year. There is a strong regulatory framework under the Alberta Energy Resource and Conservation Board. They have a total of 75 directives that are designed to prevent environmental problems.
Radley777 2 years ago
Are those 75 environmental directives effective?
steveaparr 2 years ago 3
There have been no conclusive scientific studies done on HOW to clean up the tar sand tailing ponds. Historically, mining operations are unable to "clean up" the messes they make. ex.) arsenic contaminated tailing ponds in the NWT as a result of gold mining. The other issue is that the contaminants stored in tailing ponds don't stay there. The clean up would have to go further; all the way up the Mackenzie and include remedying the health of humans and animals upstream. They can't clean it up
randi29able 2 years ago 5
But we can at least stop adding more to it.
tallard666 1 year ago