I presume this video was made using power produced by riding a bicycle driven generator, I further presume the publisher lives in an unheated home, off grid, and showers in cold water, obviously such a dedicated defender of the environment would not stoop to raping the forest to heat with wood once they'd been so noble as to separate from the evil oil economy.
If the above statements do not apply, then you're nothing but another loud mouthed hypocrite, walk the talk, or shut daPhuck up
Alberta is a wonderfull place. Only ignorant americans would make such a video while they are letting oil flow non stop into the ocean for months on end. On another note all of the bitumen produced in the oilsand projects are produced by american companies, even Petro Canada is now american owned. From there it goes to Texas to be rifined then sold to obese americans to heat thier giant over financed homes and feed thier gluttenous life styles. Get the fuck off your high horse americans.
take your american companies out of alberta. Fine by me. Personally i don't like countries who kill for oil. And i also don't like oil slicked oceans either. For goodness sakes America do you have to put your nose in everybody's business. of course you do its not like your economy is in the tank and your environment is in disarray that this is what your concentrating on. Geez i thought it really happened that america grew a brain after the cluster f@#k G.W. apparently not. lol
personally, i hate tree huggers. they are getting out of hand. we run turtle races in a town just east of us, and now PETA is getting involved.. they are a joke, and nobody likes them. so take your hemp bags and priuses and GO AWAY!! youre a shame to your country!!
And as a Canadian, i think tis quite pathetic that so many people choose the knee jerk reaction to attack America because of one advertisment, i dont care about America, and dont want to live there, and I hate the BP, but i think the people who created this advertisment is concerned with the proposed $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline , I think environmentalists`primary concern is to protect the environment, not about which country has a bigger penis.
@darksideofthenation Uh... if that's true, why waste the money in this add campaign, attacking the tourism of a province, instead of ACTUALLY helping the environment? And you know what, thanks for generalizing Albertans in your other comment, you obviously don't know us. Get your head out of your ass.
Prime Minister Harper, a former Calgary based politican, has just passed a government budget that loosen federal enivornmental assessment, coincidence ?
anyways its ironic for any Albertans to bash Americans , as the Alberta province is one of the most pro American pro George Bush pro Iraq war, anti gay marriage and pro privatizied health care Canadian provinces
anyways, this is not about which country is better, the National Geographic said the same thing. Its about the ENVIRONMENT. Idiots.
Notice how they put the Union Jack (the flag of the United Kingdom) on top of England at 0:48. Why not the proper English flag with the Cross of St George? If they got that information wrong, what other information is wrong in this attack ad?
This video is the biggest hunk of bull I have ever seen. Whats the reasoning for digging up all this oil for years and years? Oh ya, because Alberta's population is increasing like mad...because...? People dont' know how to stay in their own country. If everyone else would stop relying on Alberta for our kick ass economy, we wouldnt have to do this to the land. All you boycotters should park your cars, stop eating all the food we import for you and live on the street. ALBERTA is POWER.
The irony of this is that the US is months into the middle of one of the largest oil environmental disasters in history (BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill). What a joke this campaign has made itself out to be, if for nothing else than its poor timing... it's like they're saying "Hey world, don't look at the US, look at that guy up there!"
It doesn't even compare! How much polluted water have they created in the Gulf, and how many decades will it take for the environment to begin to recover?
@Caelum How was this at ALL a removable comment? He wasn't offensive or anything. So much for free speech from the country that harps on and on about it.
Those chemicals are not leaking out, they are being piped to a specific location to be neutralized. What does leak out into the rivers is leaking from the ground. There's so much oil up there it oozes from the ground and has been doing so since before the oil companies showed up (first reported in the early 1700s), that's how they knew it was there.
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Of course all of you Albertans are going to say that this is bullshit, you are the closest thing to Americans that we have in this country. How many of you have actually been to the tarsands? or cleaned your dirty ass oil off of a dying bird? or spoken to a native american who is dying of cancer from ingesting water close to the tarsands? None? that's what I thought.
@Gibbs4567 So... have you done any of this? My mother is Metis, and I have native friends... and I've encountered none of this Natives with Cancer because of ingested oil stuff... Have YOU even been to Alberta? I've been to Ontario. It's not exactly the posterchild for environmentally friendly provinces. If I remember correctly, it's actually dangerous to swim in Lake Ontario for long periods around Toronto. So we should boycott Ontario too, because of their manufacturing industry?
@Gibbs4567 How much of it have you done? You want to clean a bird go to the gulf, at least the companies at the oil sands (there's no tar there so don't call them tarsands unless you're using terms to control the conversation) are actively working to prevent animal injury.
@Gibbs4567 park your car and turn off your heat, then talk to me about the cleaning birds.....how many birds/bats/incects do the "enviromentaly friendly" windmills kill each year all over the world??? Thats what i thought
@maleedta Excuse me, but by Native American, they mean Aboriginal Person. First Nations. INDIAN for the people who still run around with pistols and spurs on horseback!! They weren't talking about country of origin, but they Natives. Welcome to North AMERICA; including Canada, USA, and Mexico.
As someone from Alberta, I would enjoy seeing them take another picture of Jasper (particularily Lac Beauver) and turn it into another picture of Fort McMurray. Thats interesting. When push comes to shove, Americans blame someone else. Thats why I am proud to be a Canadian.
As someone from Alberta, I would enjoy seeing them take another picture of Jasper (particularily Lac Beauver) and turn it into another picture of Fort McMurray. Thats interesting. When push comes to shove, Americans blame someone else. Thats why I am proud to be a Canadian.
This video is meaningless and at the same time laughable. If Americans really wanted to help the environment, they would cease driving cars like F 150
s, eating processed food, using electronics, and not have the world's largest army. The creators of this video, like some San Francisco citizens, probably have nothing better to do than smoke marijuana, protest Capitalism at G20 meetings, and infect themselves with HIV.
I am an Albertan & this video is a load of crap but heck I can say that all day & it won't matter . As they say everywhere, SEEING IS BELIEVING. So I invite you all to come visit Alberta & see for yourself. I in a small way actually like this video & this whole boycott . what is it the stars say? "any free publicity is good publicity" so thanx to the San Francisco Ethics Comity for the beautiful pics showing Alberta in all her majestic glory & thanx for letting people know we are here.
I need to do some expanding. I work for a lawn care company, I love the out doors and I want to work in the horticulture industry at some point. I'm as much of an environmentalist as anyone, and I think ALL countries need to be working towards the end of fossil fuel/mineral consumption. But ASININE campaigns like these get us NO where. WHY couldn't these people have put this effort and money toward IMPROVING the knowledge or technology for fuel sources? Because this is a political diversion.
Kiis my ass dummy.... I live in alberta... at least I dont have to deal with you shithead Americans all the time.. I want you to come up here pal, oh wait,,, your from San Fransico? ohhhh the home of a giant AIDS and gay population... hmmm thats killing of people and yet you let it happen? Shut the hell up dumb ass...
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Ah yes, keep driving your cars, using your plastic products and using air travel. Just salve your conscience by blaming the producers of the items you can't resist using. After all, why use self control when you can use finger-pointing?
This is crap! You can see the tar sands from space, yes. But you can also see someone picking their nose too, just depends on how closely you look. Apparently the person who made this video is not looking closely enough. Don't make Alberta seem like it is a festering wound on Canada because believe me there are worse things going on in this world than the tar sands. Would you rather support people dying by purchasing blood oil, or dirty oil from the tar sands?
As though the oil is increasingly scarce and difficult to access, even as we are still heavily dependent on the oil sands remain an aberration, completely unacceptable in these times of fighting climate change. The irresponsibility of the oil industry was notorious for crime and already more than a century, and it's not tomorrow that will change their practices. Especially not with a Conservative government is completely subservient to them.
Wow this video makes me want to punch a baby. I have finally realized the feeling of knowing a independent group is wrong. Alberta is the most ecologically friendly canadian province. We were ranked 1st in a global survey on ecological themes. Look it up bitches.
The tar sands are actually NATURALLY OCCURING surface oil, by extracting it and selling it we're CLEANING IT UP! my source, my dads friend who works at the oil sands.
@mrcdplay The only gain gathered in cleaning up one mess to create a much bigger and unmanageable one is money and benefit for human economics. This is NOT cleaning anything up, and I speak as an Albertan. Besides, we're actually a dang pretty place anyway, and they should have attacked the oilsands themselves, not tourism.
This is an obvious attempt from the Americans and Brits to divert attention from their fucking ineptitude with the Gulf of Mexico. I'm a born and raised Albertan and have lived all over the province, inCLUDING the tar sands area. Their information is so wrong. SynCrude has been charged and there have been much taxpayers money and effort into improving the Tar Sands. By the way, Corporate Ethics, how's your own damn countries oil problem going??
All those beautiful pictures they showed are exactly how Alberta looks! Our province hasn't been destroyed by any means. I've met American tourists who have come here and remarked on how blue our sky is. I'm pretty sure that means we have clean air. Also, do these environmental fanatics know how many ducks are killed a year by windmills turning for "clean energy"? There's blood on those hands too.
Tried to visit your website but it says your bandwidth is exceeded. Guess that shows what a minor, little Mickey Mouse organization you are. Hope you didn't use up all your allowance to start this group.
If you actually want to make a difference, don't threaten an industry (tourism) that strives to protect our resources for the future enjoyment of others in order to "punish" the oil and gas sector. Do something to impact the consumption of oil and gas. This campaign is worthless and will do nothing but hurt what this rethink alberta stands for. Most of the beautiful footage in this video is taken from protected areas like those I speak of. You should be ashamed for attacking Alberta Tourism
Considering all the lies about Canada's health care system that emerged during the recent US health debates , I think Canadians are well aware of the misinformation that US special interest groups, politicians, media and ordinary citizens use to try to sway the public's view. The US is a society that believes attack ads are the best way of conveying their message. One only has to look at their political campaigns to see that. Groups like this thrive on exaggeration to make their point.
If American's truly cared about Alberta's environment, they would stop using oil! Unfortunately that's unlikely as they have the world's largest military, are the largest greenhouse gas emitter, and want to dominate the world, just as they're doing in the Middle East. I am incredibly appalled at this campaign.
@friendlynicholas not to mention, a VAST majority of the oil produced by the Tar Sands ACTUALLY goes to the states. I wonder if this group realizes the irony of all this. They put up billboards (i believe the glue is oil based, same with the paint. and it took a truck running fuel to put it up.), the laptop needed to design all this will have OIL based by products in them. The computer it self was most likely shipped in GAS run vehicles. Even hybrids run off of gas still, (smart cars too)
@89crazycanuck Not to mention the natural gas used to fuel electrical stations which power many electrical cars. Oil products: stop using them or stop bitching. That's not an xor so feel free to do both.
Statistics show that "per MWh" wind and hydro power is the cheapest, and the greenest! There is no excuse as to why our province isn't booming with GREEN ENERGY! The Truth is PER CAPITA, ALBERTA IS THE LARGEST EMMITER OF GREEN HOUSE GASSES IN THE WORLD! Surpassing Saudi Arabia! Alberta produces the most dangerous gasses and does the least about it!
@kyitumon Windmill Alley along with all the other wind farms in Alberta is located in the South, That power isn't transported to the rest of Alberta, therefore we in the other parts of the province must rely on coal and other garbage like that. I understand that southern Alberta is the windy part of Alberta, fine but hey give us a little of that clean energy too such as installing some hydroelectric dams along the North Saskatchewan River, or even some solar facilities around Edmonton!
I am an Albertan and always have been, but I feel Alberta is both destroying itself and the entire earth! If Canada's government would turn their attentions to renewable energy sources like they should we could have the clean, beautiful province that it's capable of being!
@congarank Obviously you're not. You ever left the cities, if you do actually live here? This province is pretty fucking clean. The cities are pretty gross, but it's pretty hard to find a city that isn't dirty. If you actually condone this Campaign, you should maybe fuck off and stop mooching off of our economy, which is almost SOLELY attributed to our oil industry.
@89crazycanuck First of all, thank you for being so respectful. Second I actually dont even live in a city nor town, always have lived in the Country near Edmonton! Third I have been around all of Alberta, and the landscape is exquisite....When I say "we could have a clean province" it's in the sense of air pollution and not literally a dirty province! My family has lived on the same mile of land long before oil extraction had began in Alberta, I'm not moving because of this cowardous operation!
@congarank You still need to cite your information for saying the Alberta oil extraction is destroying the province AND the world. Thats a pretty wide statement, and an exaggeration worthy of these kind people who made this video. I apologize, but I have zero respect for bull shitters. I grew up in the country as well, and I've been to many cities (ottawa, vancouver, Calgary, toronto, Moncton, Fredericton, Saskatoon, Los Angeles, Berlin, Munich, Prague, etc) And Edmonton and saskatoon (continued
@congarank are by far the cleanest cities, concerning air pollution. For my job, I spend all day outside in the city, and When I can see the azure blue of the sky, I KNOW our government is being QUITE successful at trying to make certain the province stays healthy. I really can not wait for alternative energies to be found, this oil DRAMA is quite wearing on the nerves.
As an Albertan...Alberta is BEAUTIFUL! If you haven't been here, your missing out! We have the Rockies on the West, the badlands to the East...amazing countryside, Boreal Forests...Even Fort Mac is beautiful...if you fall for these smear artists campaign then your doing yourself a dis-favour. RETHINK this bull campaign and come see for yourself...No country is perfect, but Canada is close to it!
@InnerspaceGrrl Clearly you've never been anywhere in the world. I AM a visual artist. I've been to every province in Canada more than once. Why? because I love this country. Have you ever left Alberta and visited every province? If you haven't your opinion is void. Have you ever been to Europe? I have. Live theater? I'll ask again, have you EVER been anywhere in the world (or Canada for that matter)? Our live theater is embarrassing. Please experience the world before you comment.
Cold Lake Alberta is home to some of the most technologically advanced oilfields in the world. There are no open mine pits and no tailing ponds here!!!! Extraction of oil occurs from drilled wells not open mine pits. I haven't heard of any ducks dying here or people dying from illness caused by oil companies. Its amazing that these coalitions have so much time to criticize, when the regluations are so lax in the US. Knock, knock......who's there...its China....
@mmanna82 these ignorant idiots who dont actually check facts before opening their mouths, this whole video is one big lie, twice the size of England is like 600,000Sq ' size of Elberta oil sands is 500Sq ', (100000-300000) birds are killed each year from Wind Turbines this campaign is so fucking stupid and Alberta should be aloud to take them to court for false information
@dustbuster85 You must work for the Alberta Government. Why else would you want to watch the world burn? Everyone on this planet needs to take part in reducing our carbon emissions. The Alberta tarsands are a step in the wrong direction.
ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THIS CRAP IS A FUCKING IDIOT, THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SMEAR CAMPAIGN TO DRAW ATTENTION AWAY FROM BP'S LARGEST DISASTER IN US HISTORY.....JACKASSES
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I was born and raised in Alberta, and currently live here - we are moving east very soon. Alberta is a disgusting province with no culture, we are occupied by class less people and a conservative government with a god complex. I hope that their marketing campaign totally destroys our image.
@spatzy I hope you enjoy the eastern provinces more then. Myself? I'm a albertan born and raised. I tried livin' in the other provinces but I've found the lack of live arts, theatre, muesems, and history to be mind-numbing terrible. Go to a Calgary Stampede someday, you'll see our culture. AGA in Edmonton and you'll see our Class (And some more culture too!), to go Banff and you'll see our enviromentalism. Alberta is a beautiful province and we should be proud to call ourselves albertans.
The Calgary Stampede is a PERFECT example of the lack of culture and class we have. AGA I'm a member - it's embarrassing compared to the galleries in Montreal and Toronto. Which I also have memberships too. Banff - spent most of my child hood summers there. You be proud, I'm not. This place is full of rednecks.
@spatzy I've traveled quite extensively, and, ya, Alberta isn't the top for culture, but that was pretty foolish to say "alberta is a disgusting province with no culture". I lived in northern alberta and central alberta my whole child hood, and am currently in Edmonton, and your description is barely even close. You obviously need to get your head out of your ass, and you belong in Quebec. Alberta has plenty of culture, and the province as a whole is gorgeous
Just another shock & awe campaign. IMO we should stop shipping them clean water, energy and oil/oil products for a week and see what happens, bet they won't be complaining about the tar sands for long after that!
I think what makes me mad the most is that they want to boycott the Alberta tarsands and yet they still use petroleum based products each and everyday!!
@DuaneBurnettdotcom Yuo say " If you read between the lines the basic fact is we have to get off of dirty fossil fuels and on to a clean green energy future as the United Nations has been recommending for several decades now. That's the fact."
Then Alberta would be a perfect place to come visit since it is a world leader in green energy
This smear campaign hurts no one but the actual hard working families who have nothing to do with oil or the American appetite that drives the industry. It hurts those who depend on tourism to put food on the table, a roof over their heads. It hurts those who fight for environmental rights by taking away the source of their own livelihood-tourism.
Get a clue and DO SOMETHING about the Gulf- instead of blowing money that could have been used to help the cleanup on a distraction campaign.
Might as well have a guy standing knee-deep in oil in the gulf waving his arms frantically yelling "Nothing to see here! Oh hey! this one time a private oil company in Alberta had 1600 birds die in a waste pool- BLAME THEM instead!".
What happened in Alberta is nothing compared to the worst environmental disaster in history in the Gulf- stop trying to distract people from that.
It's sad to see the lack of knowledge this campaign and it's backer's have.
Alberta's Tar sand's is one of the cleanest source's of oil in the world!
It is nothing like the "Blood Oil" taken from war torn Arabia,which is similar to the "Blood Diamond's" of Africa ! Alberta has NEVER and will NEVER have a disaster like the one we presently see in The Gulf of Mexico, or the Exxon Valdez, and many other Off-Shore related oil disasters?!
It's sad to see the lack of knowledge this campaign and it's backer's have.
Alberta's Tar sand's is one of the cleanest source's of oil in the world!
It is nothing like the "Blood Oil" taken from war torn Arabia,which is similar to the "Blood Diamond's" of Africa ! Alberta has NEVER and will NEVER have a disaster like the one we presently see in The Gulf of Mexico, or the Exxon Valdez, and many other Off-Shore related oil disasters?!
I'm a little surprised that Corporate Ethics International wouldn't focus on such companies like Monsanto, Credit Card Companies, or perhaps one of the many Health Insurance Companies based in the United States? I would say based on their "projects" section, targeting the oilsands was misguided at best. Makes me wonder who's paying for your extensive advertising campaigns, was there no one willing to foot the bill for a campaign against Monsanto?
I think we should let go of the CO2 thing and lets focus on real issues like acid rain causing emissions from coal plants and oil sands mining which is monitored and oils ands miners continualy th the oil sands are not the END of you. They are much needed enrgy much like many othersupgrade their technology to get rid of these issues as they arise. Lets all take a deep brea
Many manyy times n our history we have gone through iceage / warming cycles. For the last 10000 years our glaciers have been receeding from there farthest South point in middle america they have been slowly continously retreating and will eventually disspaear from the poalr caps completly before they start there advance again in another iceage by whatever mechanism they work.
Envirment Canada with new equipment will test thge signatures of tailings ponds vs natureal leaching of the same products in the river and settle whos leaking what or how much and settle any issues as needed. As far as CO2 emmisions Im not sure why were still talking about it. The issue of man made vs normal natural global cooling or warming vs short term warm trend are highly divisive with respescted institutions on all sides of the issue.
The actual portion of the mining operations where they remove the landscape is the size of a medium city. Cancer levels in thge area are shown now to be caused by working in uranium ines in the 60's. The heavy metals and such in the river have been leaching naturally into the river for at least a thousand years. The river is naturally polluted.
Stopping tar sand exploitation would completely cripple Canada's economy. We're talking about a multi-billion dollar industry that saved our country from recession. Alberta is 2 things, Oil and Beef; both are essential to Canada's financial health. Furthermore, the less American tourists come here, the better this country is because they seem to destroy everything they touch, soil every land they step on, and ... and ... eat a lot of fast food, so they're fat and ugly :P
Everyone keeps pointing to BP as the US disaster to be concerned about. How about all the American Coal mines in the east. Looks pretty similar to the video shown here. ReThink Pennsylvania? Glass House?
This propaganda campaign is entirely based on the irrational beliefs, ignorance and hypocrisy of the American People. How about you focus your energy on fixing the problems your country has before pointing the finger at your neighbor. FYI, 90% of the heavy equipment used in the tar sand mining industry in constructed and sold by two American companies, respectively Caterpillar and Finning. Leave the Alberta tourism industry alone and attack the problem at its source.
It's time to re-think our oil addiction and clean up this planet once and for all.Besides the greatest oil spill and the tar sands, there are countless other environmental disasters that need attention including that newly formed island in the ocean entirely made of plastic garbage dumped by total losers!
I just hit a Crow this morning on my way to work in my vehicle, on an Alberta HWY going into work which I get paid from working with car dealerships which sells cars that are made in America who manufacture non eco friendly vehicles.
If you're dumb enough to buy into this propaganda, it would be greatly appreciated if maybe you don't visit Alberta... and go smash your head on a rock.
America's got the biggest oil disaster in history. These 'eco' fuckers are pointing fingers at Alberta? Hey 'edo' fuckers. Go shove your cocks up Obama's ass and keep your fucking nose out of Alberta, eh?
Now, about the water they use. 80% is recycled over and over again. water not used flows directly into the Arctic Ocean, It's not like their gonna miss it , or some farmer reallly needs it
The tarsands COVER an area twice the size of england. that doesn't mean it will destroy that area. Thats like saying the entire state of Texas is destroyed by all the drilling activity there. Lenin had a name for people like these. "usefull idiots"
exactly their so dumb i'll bet they don't even know that. Halliburton is one of the largest in alberta. They are like fox news make shit up as they go along,
'We want Alberta and Canada to quit interfering in our efforts in the United States to end our addiction to oil.'—Michael Marx, Corporate Ethics International
Alberta is an arrogant peice of crap stop comparing the US to Canada.
Finally it seems that regular people - inside and outside Alberta - are slowly getting the message that the tarsands are an environmental nightmare. Great video and cudos for spreading the message.
ps - To the pro-tarsands commenters: Your arguments would make more sense if you could address the facts presented in this video.
@kamelhead there are only one sided facts, not represented here are the efforts of the government and Oil companies working together to make less damage to the environment. Reforestation of land used and replanted, the ponds safer for wildlife the birds etc. Efforts are made to reduce damage THAT IS NOT EVEN SHOWN on this video. So Address FACTS which this video does not!
@kamelhead your video is all crap leave it to a stupid americans to believe what he/she sees on tv.All of a sudden americans are damn experts of the situation. I live in alberta have all my life. I wish there was such thing as an intelligent american
this video is fucking hilarious. half the clips of the ponds are reclamation areas being pumped full of sand water. the water evaporates and all thats left is sand. maybe you should worry about destroying the fucking oceans like you americans already have and continue you to do before you start attacking others. it isnt taking the spot light off you. fucking hippie fags
This video is a complete fraud. The oil sands are a thousand miles from the mountains. There are accidents but those are well-documented. Do not believe this propaganda. I will gladly support Alberta on my next vacation. Now, don't you Americans have some illegal wars to attend to?
This video is a complete fraud. The oil sands are a thousand miles from the mountains. There are accidents but those are well-documented. Do not believe this propaganda. I will gladly support Alberta on my next vacation. Now, don't you Americans have some illegal wars to attend to?
i'm deaf and the closed captioning doesn't work on this even though you got a button for it... i live in the USA i am a US citizen and yes i agree the USA are full of the most dumbest and ignorant people on Earth!
I guess they are hoping to get more tourists to go fishing in the gulf ?
Bullshit gives off green house gas too....and where on the planet can you find more bullshit than in the USA ? 99% of them don't know where Canada is anyway... Maybe we should ask them how they keep their country so clean and pollution free ? .....that would be a breath of fresh air I bet.
I think a more appropriate campaign would be: "Rethink the Gulf of Mexico." This campaign is nothing but a pithy attempt to deflect attention from the US - unfortunately for this group, anybody but an American will see through this attempted boycott of Alberta.
@spatzy While we may all be "destroying" the environment, targeting Alberta's tourism industry is no way to go about effecting change. The sheer hypocrisy of this project is what so many of us are upset about (with respect to the Gulf of Mexico disaster). This is nothing but a smeer campaign.
@Westicularcancer I'd be more inclined to agree with you if your comment was appropriately placed. This video is targeting the tourism industry, which incidentally has nothing to do with the tar sands. The only thing moronic is that you can't see through the goal of "rethinking Alberta."
@Westicularcancer I'd be more inclined to agree with you if your comment was appropriately placed. This video is targeting the tourism industry, which incidentally has nothing to do with the tar sands. The only thing moronic is that you can't see through the goal of "rethinking Alberta."
@Westicularcancer our tourism has NOTHING to do with the tar sands! Whether or not one support the tar sands doesn't give them justification to support this moronic campaign. We are so much more than the tar sands and boycotting the entire province will only hurt the people, not the tar sands.
You must be one dumb American that lives in the bush, no vehicle, no power, no big screen tv right? Watching YouTube from your hemp made laptop run off solar power?... Wake the fuck up!
If this ad campaign keeps the eco-activists and those stupid enought to be influenced by this drivel from coming to Alberta on their vacations, I guess I'd have to say I'm totally in favor. You go, crazy tree-huggers!!!!!
Maybe this group should look with in their borders where they have the worst environmental disaster in human history happening RIGHT NOW!!!! o wait i'll get it started "thinking of visiting the gulf coast or Britian (where BP is headquartered) THINK AGAIN!!!!)
Think you know Alberta? Neither do you guys All you see is bad You dont see the good thi industry has done Sure I will admit that smoke stacks do release large amounts of C02 but I could guarantee that New York city releases way more carbon dioxide than the oil sands Then there was the ducks that died in that industrial pond I think you viewers should be disturbed that people sat there with a camera and filmed all this suffering instead of ending it via firearm Come to alberta see 4 yourself
Many Canadians are just as appalled with the Tar Sands and want a sustainable clean energy future for the earth. We don't want oil tankers on our oceans, offshore oil drilling or pipelines. We want green energy. I feel that "Oil is the new Tobacco". Come and check out our hip hop spoof "Oil BP Naughty to Nature" on youtube. Its a parody of O.P.P. by Naughty by Nature. Thanks! Yours for the planet. Duane
I presume this video was made using power produced by riding a bicycle driven generator, I further presume the publisher lives in an unheated home, off grid, and showers in cold water, obviously such a dedicated defender of the environment would not stoop to raping the forest to heat with wood once they'd been so noble as to separate from the evil oil economy.
If the above statements do not apply, then you're nothing but another loud mouthed hypocrite, walk the talk, or shut daPhuck up
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@SpyVsSpy9999 Amen, man.
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SpyVsSpy9999 1 year ago
Alberta is a wonderfull place. Only ignorant americans would make such a video while they are letting oil flow non stop into the ocean for months on end. On another note all of the bitumen produced in the oilsand projects are produced by american companies, even Petro Canada is now american owned. From there it goes to Texas to be rifined then sold to obese americans to heat thier giant over financed homes and feed thier gluttenous life styles. Get the fuck off your high horse americans.
truenorthab13 1 year ago
take your american companies out of alberta. Fine by me. Personally i don't like countries who kill for oil. And i also don't like oil slicked oceans either. For goodness sakes America do you have to put your nose in everybody's business. of course you do its not like your economy is in the tank and your environment is in disarray that this is what your concentrating on. Geez i thought it really happened that america grew a brain after the cluster f@#k G.W. apparently not. lol
tanyalabonte 1 year ago
personally, i hate tree huggers. they are getting out of hand. we run turtle races in a town just east of us, and now PETA is getting involved.. they are a joke, and nobody likes them. so take your hemp bags and priuses and GO AWAY!! youre a shame to your country!!
stewman110 1 year ago
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If you guys are so fucking concerned with the god damn environment then stop using our oil bitches!
Maukification 1 year ago
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Maukification 1 year ago
And as a Canadian, i think tis quite pathetic that so many people choose the knee jerk reaction to attack America because of one advertisment, i dont care about America, and dont want to live there, and I hate the BP, but i think the people who created this advertisment is concerned with the proposed $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline , I think environmentalists`primary concern is to protect the environment, not about which country has a bigger penis.
darksideofthenation 1 year ago
@darksideofthenation Uh... if that's true, why waste the money in this add campaign, attacking the tourism of a province, instead of ACTUALLY helping the environment? And you know what, thanks for generalizing Albertans in your other comment, you obviously don't know us. Get your head out of your ass.
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
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darksideofthenation 1 year ago
Prime Minister Harper, a former Calgary based politican, has just passed a government budget that loosen federal enivornmental assessment, coincidence ?
anyways its ironic for any Albertans to bash Americans , as the Alberta province is one of the most pro American pro George Bush pro Iraq war, anti gay marriage and pro privatizied health care Canadian provinces
anyways, this is not about which country is better, the National Geographic said the same thing. Its about the ENVIRONMENT. Idiots.
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darksideofthenation 1 year ago
So far I haven't seen anything us Americans haven't been doing for the last hundred years.
Dexomega 1 year ago
do you think insulting all Americans is a Canadian response to environmental critics
is this the Alberta way
darksideofthenation 1 year ago
...OH NO!!!...no more Americans in Canada????!! hahah.. i think you guys have polluted not only our earth, but corrupted it as well.
mmanna82 - i agree, i'd be shocked if they could point out Canada on the map.
timewarp80 1 year ago
Everyone, turn on transcribed audio captions!
FoamPackingPeanuts 1 year ago
Hahaha...
Notice how they put the Union Jack (the flag of the United Kingdom) on top of England at 0:48. Why not the proper English flag with the Cross of St George? If they got that information wrong, what other information is wrong in this attack ad?
jkuzub 1 year ago 6
This video is the biggest hunk of bull I have ever seen. Whats the reasoning for digging up all this oil for years and years? Oh ya, because Alberta's population is increasing like mad...because...? People dont' know how to stay in their own country. If everyone else would stop relying on Alberta for our kick ass economy, we wouldnt have to do this to the land. All you boycotters should park your cars, stop eating all the food we import for you and live on the street. ALBERTA is POWER.
tazzy207 1 year ago 5
The irony of this is that the US is months into the middle of one of the largest oil environmental disasters in history (BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill). What a joke this campaign has made itself out to be, if for nothing else than its poor timing... it's like they're saying "Hey world, don't look at the US, look at that guy up there!"
It doesn't even compare! How much polluted water have they created in the Gulf, and how many decades will it take for the environment to begin to recover?
Dave75M 1 year ago 2
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Caelum 1 year ago
@Caelum How was this at ALL a removable comment? He wasn't offensive or anything. So much for free speech from the country that harps on and on about it.
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
Those chemicals are not leaking out, they are being piped to a specific location to be neutralized. What does leak out into the rivers is leaking from the ground. There's so much oil up there it oozes from the ground and has been doing so since before the oil companies showed up (first reported in the early 1700s), that's how they knew it was there.
Squeebe 1 year ago 5
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Dave75M 1 year ago
ha ha the majority of canadas oil goes to the states!
pipeliner88 1 year ago
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Of course all of you Albertans are going to say that this is bullshit, you are the closest thing to Americans that we have in this country. How many of you have actually been to the tarsands? or cleaned your dirty ass oil off of a dying bird? or spoken to a native american who is dying of cancer from ingesting water close to the tarsands? None? that's what I thought.
Gibbs4567 1 year ago
@Gibbs4567 So... have you done any of this? My mother is Metis, and I have native friends... and I've encountered none of this Natives with Cancer because of ingested oil stuff... Have YOU even been to Alberta? I've been to Ontario. It's not exactly the posterchild for environmentally friendly provinces. If I remember correctly, it's actually dangerous to swim in Lake Ontario for long periods around Toronto. So we should boycott Ontario too, because of their manufacturing industry?
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
@Gibbs4567 How much of it have you done? You want to clean a bird go to the gulf, at least the companies at the oil sands (there's no tar there so don't call them tarsands unless you're using terms to control the conversation) are actively working to prevent animal injury.
Squeebe 1 year ago
@Gibbs4567 park your car and turn off your heat, then talk to me about the cleaning birds.....how many birds/bats/incects do the "enviromentaly friendly" windmills kill each year all over the world??? Thats what i thought
derekwilcox1 1 year ago
@Gibbs4567 A native American in Alberta that doen't make sense, its Canada not the USA, Do you mean native Canadian or are you ignorant!
maleedta 1 year ago
@maleedta Excuse me, but by Native American, they mean Aboriginal Person. First Nations. INDIAN for the people who still run around with pistols and spurs on horseback!! They weren't talking about country of origin, but they Natives. Welcome to North AMERICA; including Canada, USA, and Mexico.
whynaut2day 1 year ago
I am a proud Canadian and proud to be anti-American!
friendlynicholas 1 year ago
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As someone from Alberta, I would enjoy seeing them take another picture of Jasper (particularily Lac Beauver) and turn it into another picture of Fort McMurray. Thats interesting. When push comes to shove, Americans blame someone else. Thats why I am proud to be a Canadian.
dkones9 1 year ago 3
As someone from Alberta, I would enjoy seeing them take another picture of Jasper (particularily Lac Beauver) and turn it into another picture of Fort McMurray. Thats interesting. When push comes to shove, Americans blame someone else. Thats why I am proud to be a Canadian.
dkones9 1 year ago
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dkones9 1 year ago
This video is meaningless and at the same time laughable. If Americans really wanted to help the environment, they would cease driving cars like F 150
s, eating processed food, using electronics, and not have the world's largest army. The creators of this video, like some San Francisco citizens, probably have nothing better to do than smoke marijuana, protest Capitalism at G20 meetings, and infect themselves with HIV.
friendlynicholas 1 year ago
I am an Albertan & this video is a load of crap but heck I can say that all day & it won't matter . As they say everywhere, SEEING IS BELIEVING. So I invite you all to come visit Alberta & see for yourself. I in a small way actually like this video & this whole boycott . what is it the stars say? "any free publicity is good publicity" so thanx to the San Francisco Ethics Comity for the beautiful pics showing Alberta in all her majestic glory & thanx for letting people know we are here.
Mrssilky1 1 year ago
I need to do some expanding. I work for a lawn care company, I love the out doors and I want to work in the horticulture industry at some point. I'm as much of an environmentalist as anyone, and I think ALL countries need to be working towards the end of fossil fuel/mineral consumption. But ASININE campaigns like these get us NO where. WHY couldn't these people have put this effort and money toward IMPROVING the knowledge or technology for fuel sources? Because this is a political diversion.
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
Kiis my ass dummy.... I live in alberta... at least I dont have to deal with you shithead Americans all the time.. I want you to come up here pal, oh wait,,, your from San Fransico? ohhhh the home of a giant AIDS and gay population... hmmm thats killing of people and yet you let it happen? Shut the hell up dumb ass...
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TeePhrazePhotography 1 year ago
Ah yes, keep driving your cars, using your plastic products and using air travel. Just salve your conscience by blaming the producers of the items you can't resist using. After all, why use self control when you can use finger-pointing?
mendelbot 1 year ago
This is crap! You can see the tar sands from space, yes. But you can also see someone picking their nose too, just depends on how closely you look. Apparently the person who made this video is not looking closely enough. Don't make Alberta seem like it is a festering wound on Canada because believe me there are worse things going on in this world than the tar sands. Would you rather support people dying by purchasing blood oil, or dirty oil from the tar sands?
SkittleBug9719 1 year ago 2
This video won't do that much damage considering that most of the views are from within Canada.
econdrone 1 year ago
As though the oil is increasingly scarce and difficult to access, even as we are still heavily dependent on the oil sands remain an aberration, completely unacceptable in these times of fighting climate change. The irresponsibility of the oil industry was notorious for crime and already more than a century, and it's not tomorrow that will change their practices. Especially not with a Conservative government is completely subservient to them.
leclercri 1 year ago
Wow this video makes me want to punch a baby. I have finally realized the feeling of knowing a independent group is wrong. Alberta is the most ecologically friendly canadian province. We were ranked 1st in a global survey on ecological themes. Look it up bitches.
thezachman 1 year ago 3
The tar sands are actually NATURALLY OCCURING surface oil, by extracting it and selling it we're CLEANING IT UP! my source, my dads friend who works at the oil sands.
mrcdplay 1 year ago
@mrcdplay The only gain gathered in cleaning up one mess to create a much bigger and unmanageable one is money and benefit for human economics. This is NOT cleaning anything up, and I speak as an Albertan. Besides, we're actually a dang pretty place anyway, and they should have attacked the oilsands themselves, not tourism.
Hypergalactica 1 year ago
@Hypergalactica oil sands are naturally occuring surface oil, we didn't put it there.
mrcdplay 1 year ago
This is an obvious attempt from the Americans and Brits to divert attention from their fucking ineptitude with the Gulf of Mexico. I'm a born and raised Albertan and have lived all over the province, inCLUDING the tar sands area. Their information is so wrong. SynCrude has been charged and there have been much taxpayers money and effort into improving the Tar Sands. By the way, Corporate Ethics, how's your own damn countries oil problem going??
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
All those beautiful pictures they showed are exactly how Alberta looks! Our province hasn't been destroyed by any means. I've met American tourists who have come here and remarked on how blue our sky is. I'm pretty sure that means we have clean air. Also, do these environmental fanatics know how many ducks are killed a year by windmills turning for "clean energy"? There's blood on those hands too.
skitscuddlydoo 1 year ago
Tried to visit your website but it says your bandwidth is exceeded. Guess that shows what a minor, little Mickey Mouse organization you are. Hope you didn't use up all your allowance to start this group.
dale310 1 year ago
Americans don't buy into this crap, it is the stupid bleeding heart liberals in canada.
Alberta is sick of supporting ontario! LAZY BUMS!
shorfilmman 1 year ago
If you actually want to make a difference, don't threaten an industry (tourism) that strives to protect our resources for the future enjoyment of others in order to "punish" the oil and gas sector. Do something to impact the consumption of oil and gas. This campaign is worthless and will do nothing but hurt what this rethink alberta stands for. Most of the beautiful footage in this video is taken from protected areas like those I speak of. You should be ashamed for attacking Alberta Tourism
melissanason 1 year ago 2
Considering all the lies about Canada's health care system that emerged during the recent US health debates , I think Canadians are well aware of the misinformation that US special interest groups, politicians, media and ordinary citizens use to try to sway the public's view. The US is a society that believes attack ads are the best way of conveying their message. One only has to look at their political campaigns to see that. Groups like this thrive on exaggeration to make their point.
dale310 1 year ago 3
If American's truly cared about Alberta's environment, they would stop using oil! Unfortunately that's unlikely as they have the world's largest military, are the largest greenhouse gas emitter, and want to dominate the world, just as they're doing in the Middle East. I am incredibly appalled at this campaign.
friendlynicholas 1 year ago
@friendlynicholas not to mention, a VAST majority of the oil produced by the Tar Sands ACTUALLY goes to the states. I wonder if this group realizes the irony of all this. They put up billboards (i believe the glue is oil based, same with the paint. and it took a truck running fuel to put it up.), the laptop needed to design all this will have OIL based by products in them. The computer it self was most likely shipped in GAS run vehicles. Even hybrids run off of gas still, (smart cars too)
89crazycanuck 1 year ago 3
@89crazycanuck Not to mention the natural gas used to fuel electrical stations which power many electrical cars. Oil products: stop using them or stop bitching. That's not an xor so feel free to do both.
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askuared 1 year ago
Unfortunately this video reminds me of the mostly American G20 protestors who broke windows and vandalized Toronto's downtown.
friendlynicholas 1 year ago 3
ohh =(..terribly sad..poor little creatures
Passioneista 1 year ago
Another reason why I dont like American goverment.....
krazykatrina 1 year ago 2
I wonder which country's unnecessary military has the largest impact on the environment.
friendlynicholas 1 year ago 2
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friendlynicholas 1 year ago
TO HELL WITH THE USA
forsaken187666 1 year ago
@BlackMumba38 God dang they removed my comment... wtf for !
BlackMumba38 1 year ago
@yiwahikanak shut up
forsaken187666 1 year ago
Statistics show that "per MWh" wind and hydro power is the cheapest, and the greenest! There is no excuse as to why our province isn't booming with GREEN ENERGY! The Truth is PER CAPITA, ALBERTA IS THE LARGEST EMMITER OF GREEN HOUSE GASSES IN THE WORLD! Surpassing Saudi Arabia! Alberta produces the most dangerous gasses and does the least about it!
congarank 1 year ago
@congarank Hey, cite your information. Thanks.
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
@89crazycanuck Oh I did
-Wikipedia-Cost Of Electricity By Source ( middle of page)
-Wikipedia-Greenhouse gas (subsection-Regional and national attribution of emissions)
congarank 1 year ago
@congarank We do that because it's colder than hell and we need global warming to hurry up! I love global warming bring it on!
maleedta 1 year ago
@congarank , Alberta IS going green. Have you ever been down Windmill Alley?
Also, ya, if you could link to your sources that would be great...
kyitumon 1 year ago
@kyitumon Windmill Alley along with all the other wind farms in Alberta is located in the South, That power isn't transported to the rest of Alberta, therefore we in the other parts of the province must rely on coal and other garbage like that. I understand that southern Alberta is the windy part of Alberta, fine but hey give us a little of that clean energy too such as installing some hydroelectric dams along the North Saskatchewan River, or even some solar facilities around Edmonton!
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congarank 1 year ago
@kyitumon
-Wikipedia-Cost Of Electricity By Source ( middle of page)
-Wikipedia-Greenhouse gas (subsection-Regional and national attribution of emissions)
Thank you for letting me prove it!
congarank 1 year ago
You can see my car in front of my house from space.. So the Tialing ponds must be quite small!
kevie88 1 year ago
I am an Albertan and always have been, but I feel Alberta is both destroying itself and the entire earth! If Canada's government would turn their attentions to renewable energy sources like they should we could have the clean, beautiful province that it's capable of being!
congarank 1 year ago
@congarank Obviously you're not. You ever left the cities, if you do actually live here? This province is pretty fucking clean. The cities are pretty gross, but it's pretty hard to find a city that isn't dirty. If you actually condone this Campaign, you should maybe fuck off and stop mooching off of our economy, which is almost SOLELY attributed to our oil industry.
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
@89crazycanuck First of all, thank you for being so respectful. Second I actually dont even live in a city nor town, always have lived in the Country near Edmonton! Third I have been around all of Alberta, and the landscape is exquisite....When I say "we could have a clean province" it's in the sense of air pollution and not literally a dirty province! My family has lived on the same mile of land long before oil extraction had began in Alberta, I'm not moving because of this cowardous operation!
congarank 1 year ago
@congarank You still need to cite your information for saying the Alberta oil extraction is destroying the province AND the world. Thats a pretty wide statement, and an exaggeration worthy of these kind people who made this video. I apologize, but I have zero respect for bull shitters. I grew up in the country as well, and I've been to many cities (ottawa, vancouver, Calgary, toronto, Moncton, Fredericton, Saskatoon, Los Angeles, Berlin, Munich, Prague, etc) And Edmonton and saskatoon (continued
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
@congarank are by far the cleanest cities, concerning air pollution. For my job, I spend all day outside in the city, and When I can see the azure blue of the sky, I KNOW our government is being QUITE successful at trying to make certain the province stays healthy. I really can not wait for alternative energies to be found, this oil DRAMA is quite wearing on the nerves.
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
Corporate Ethics International can shove its head back inside its ass... if it hasn't done so already.
FoamPackingPeanuts 1 year ago 2
wow ok so lets blame alberta cause of our tar sands, well without us you wouldnt even be able to run your home
IvenTheTerrible 1 year ago
@IvenTheTerrible
You're an idiot.
Most of the oil the tar sands produce is exported.
Canada still imports the majority of it's gas due to lack of refineries.
We export crude fool.
Westicularcancer 1 year ago
As an Albertan...Alberta is BEAUTIFUL! If you haven't been here, your missing out! We have the Rockies on the West, the badlands to the East...amazing countryside, Boreal Forests...Even Fort Mac is beautiful...if you fall for these smear artists campaign then your doing yourself a dis-favour. RETHINK this bull campaign and come see for yourself...No country is perfect, but Canada is close to it!
purestseraphim 1 year ago 17
@InnerspaceGrrl Clearly you've never been anywhere in the world. I AM a visual artist. I've been to every province in Canada more than once. Why? because I love this country. Have you ever left Alberta and visited every province? If you haven't your opinion is void. Have you ever been to Europe? I have. Live theater? I'll ask again, have you EVER been anywhere in the world (or Canada for that matter)? Our live theater is embarrassing. Please experience the world before you comment.
spatzy 1 year ago
Cold Lake Alberta is home to some of the most technologically advanced oilfields in the world. There are no open mine pits and no tailing ponds here!!!! Extraction of oil occurs from drilled wells not open mine pits. I haven't heard of any ducks dying here or people dying from illness caused by oil companies. Its amazing that these coalitions have so much time to criticize, when the regluations are so lax in the US. Knock, knock......who's there...its China....
brandonvik 1 year ago 3
@mmanna82 these ignorant idiots who dont actually check facts before opening their mouths, this whole video is one big lie, twice the size of England is like 600,000Sq ' size of Elberta oil sands is 500Sq ', (100000-300000) birds are killed each year from Wind Turbines this campaign is so fucking stupid and Alberta should be aloud to take them to court for false information
dustbuster85 1 year ago 3
@dustbuster85 You must work for the Alberta Government. Why else would you want to watch the world burn? Everyone on this planet needs to take part in reducing our carbon emissions. The Alberta tarsands are a step in the wrong direction.
ColonelTigh2 1 year ago
Yes Americans, boycott Alberta, we really don't like or need you here anyway. I would die of shock if you could even find us on a map.
mmanna82 1 year ago 17
ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THIS CRAP IS A FUCKING IDIOT, THIS IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SMEAR CAMPAIGN TO DRAW ATTENTION AWAY FROM BP'S LARGEST DISASTER IN US HISTORY.....JACKASSES
dustbuster85 1 year ago 2
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I was born and raised in Alberta, and currently live here - we are moving east very soon. Alberta is a disgusting province with no culture, we are occupied by class less people and a conservative government with a god complex. I hope that their marketing campaign totally destroys our image.
spatzy 1 year ago
@spatzy I hope you enjoy the eastern provinces more then. Myself? I'm a albertan born and raised. I tried livin' in the other provinces but I've found the lack of live arts, theatre, muesems, and history to be mind-numbing terrible. Go to a Calgary Stampede someday, you'll see our culture. AGA in Edmonton and you'll see our Class (And some more culture too!), to go Banff and you'll see our enviromentalism. Alberta is a beautiful province and we should be proud to call ourselves albertans.
NightstrikerIX 1 year ago 2
@NightstrikerIX ROFL
The Calgary Stampede is a PERFECT example of the lack of culture and class we have. AGA I'm a member - it's embarrassing compared to the galleries in Montreal and Toronto. Which I also have memberships too. Banff - spent most of my child hood summers there. You be proud, I'm not. This place is full of rednecks.
spatzy 1 year ago
@spatzy I'm sure you wouldn't know redneck if it came up and decked you in the face.
whynaut2day 1 year ago
@spatzy I've traveled quite extensively, and, ya, Alberta isn't the top for culture, but that was pretty foolish to say "alberta is a disgusting province with no culture". I lived in northern alberta and central alberta my whole child hood, and am currently in Edmonton, and your description is barely even close. You obviously need to get your head out of your ass, and you belong in Quebec. Alberta has plenty of culture, and the province as a whole is gorgeous
89crazycanuck 1 year ago
@89crazycanuck Well said. Edmonton for the win!
SkittleBug9719 1 year ago
Just another shock & awe campaign. IMO we should stop shipping them clean water, energy and oil/oil products for a week and see what happens, bet they won't be complaining about the tar sands for long after that!
I think what makes me mad the most is that they want to boycott the Alberta tarsands and yet they still use petroleum based products each and everyday!!
RumRugby 1 year ago 2
Thanks For Promoting Alberta!
Christajuly1997 1 year ago 2
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@DuaneBurnettdotcom Yuo say " If you read between the lines the basic fact is we have to get off of dirty fossil fuels and on to a clean green energy future as the United Nations has been recommending for several decades now. That's the fact."
Then Alberta would be a perfect place to come visit since it is a world leader in green energy
kelgs13 1 year ago
This smear campaign hurts no one but the actual hard working families who have nothing to do with oil or the American appetite that drives the industry. It hurts those who depend on tourism to put food on the table, a roof over their heads. It hurts those who fight for environmental rights by taking away the source of their own livelihood-tourism.
Get a clue and DO SOMETHING about the Gulf- instead of blowing money that could have been used to help the cleanup on a distraction campaign.
VidGirl88 1 year ago 3
Wow- such ignorance.
Might as well have a guy standing knee-deep in oil in the gulf waving his arms frantically yelling "Nothing to see here! Oh hey! this one time a private oil company in Alberta had 1600 birds die in a waste pool- BLAME THEM instead!".
What happened in Alberta is nothing compared to the worst environmental disaster in history in the Gulf- stop trying to distract people from that.
VidGirl88 1 year ago 2
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It's sad to see the lack of knowledge this campaign and it's backer's have.
Alberta's Tar sand's is one of the cleanest source's of oil in the world!
It is nothing like the "Blood Oil" taken from war torn Arabia,which is similar to the "Blood Diamond's" of Africa ! Alberta has NEVER and will NEVER have a disaster like the one we presently see in The Gulf of Mexico, or the Exxon Valdez, and many other Off-Shore related oil disasters?!
keetag 1 year ago
It's sad to see the lack of knowledge this campaign and it's backer's have.
Alberta's Tar sand's is one of the cleanest source's of oil in the world!
It is nothing like the "Blood Oil" taken from war torn Arabia,which is similar to the "Blood Diamond's" of Africa ! Alberta has NEVER and will NEVER have a disaster like the one we presently see in The Gulf of Mexico, or the Exxon Valdez, and many other Off-Shore related oil disasters?!
keetag 1 year ago 2
The makers of this ad are dirtbag scumbags and lairs. Alberta is clean and wonderful.
There is an anti oil movement that is out to enrich themselfs these sleazy enviormental groups that are not in the best interest of the majority.
Oil is a wonderful fuel and we are lucky to have it cheap and clean... Of course good stewartship is required like all refinement there are issues.
Carbon credits are ment to further impoverish the masses!
nextthought 1 year ago 2
I'm a little surprised that Corporate Ethics International wouldn't focus on such companies like Monsanto, Credit Card Companies, or perhaps one of the many Health Insurance Companies based in the United States? I would say based on their "projects" section, targeting the oilsands was misguided at best. Makes me wonder who's paying for your extensive advertising campaigns, was there no one willing to foot the bill for a campaign against Monsanto?
Physcojoe 1 year ago 2
I think we should let go of the CO2 thing and lets focus on real issues like acid rain causing emissions from coal plants and oil sands mining which is monitored and oils ands miners continualy th the oil sands are not the END of you. They are much needed enrgy much like many othersupgrade their technology to get rid of these issues as they arise. Lets all take a deep brea
Iceblue9999 1 year ago
Many manyy times n our history we have gone through iceage / warming cycles. For the last 10000 years our glaciers have been receeding from there farthest South point in middle america they have been slowly continously retreating and will eventually disspaear from the poalr caps completly before they start there advance again in another iceage by whatever mechanism they work.
Iceblue9999 1 year ago
Envirment Canada with new equipment will test thge signatures of tailings ponds vs natureal leaching of the same products in the river and settle whos leaking what or how much and settle any issues as needed. As far as CO2 emmisions Im not sure why were still talking about it. The issue of man made vs normal natural global cooling or warming vs short term warm trend are highly divisive with respescted institutions on all sides of the issue.
Iceblue9999 1 year ago
The actual portion of the mining operations where they remove the landscape is the size of a medium city. Cancer levels in thge area are shown now to be caused by working in uranium ines in the 60's. The heavy metals and such in the river have been leaching naturally into the river for at least a thousand years. The river is naturally polluted.
Iceblue9999 1 year ago
Stopping tar sand exploitation would completely cripple Canada's economy. We're talking about a multi-billion dollar industry that saved our country from recession. Alberta is 2 things, Oil and Beef; both are essential to Canada's financial health. Furthermore, the less American tourists come here, the better this country is because they seem to destroy everything they touch, soil every land they step on, and ... and ... eat a lot of fast food, so they're fat and ugly :P
SorryImNotAGenius 1 year ago
Everyone keeps pointing to BP as the US disaster to be concerned about. How about all the American Coal mines in the east. Looks pretty similar to the video shown here. ReThink Pennsylvania? Glass House?
mxnic 1 year ago 4
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After all, Canada will be such a better country without being invaded by American tourists.
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SorryImNotAGenius 1 year ago
Check Wiki for the list of oil spills, mostly form America
There are over 100 spills in many many states all over America, some still leaking not including the current Gulf situation.
Should we boycott all of America? Probably. (plus if you don't visit, less chances of getting shot, many people have guns for no reason)
Daly75111 1 year ago 2
This propaganda campaign is entirely based on the irrational beliefs, ignorance and hypocrisy of the American People. How about you focus your energy on fixing the problems your country has before pointing the finger at your neighbor. FYI, 90% of the heavy equipment used in the tar sand mining industry in constructed and sold by two American companies, respectively Caterpillar and Finning. Leave the Alberta tourism industry alone and attack the problem at its source.
SorryImNotAGenius 1 year ago 2
It's time to re-think our oil addiction and clean up this planet once and for all.Besides the greatest oil spill and the tar sands, there are countless other environmental disasters that need attention including that newly formed island in the ocean entirely made of plastic garbage dumped by total losers!
GodlessPeaceTM 1 year ago
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Its about time that a group is coming forward to do this. I only wish it was us Canadians that had the b@lls to do it.
ColonelTigh2 1 year ago
I just hit a Crow this morning on my way to work in my vehicle, on an Alberta HWY going into work which I get paid from working with car dealerships which sells cars that are made in America who manufacture non eco friendly vehicles.
Hum... where does this battle start :)
BlackMumba38 1 year ago
Also see the vid: ScamWow
420thShinobi 1 year ago
If you're dumb enough to buy into this propaganda, it would be greatly appreciated if maybe you don't visit Alberta... and go smash your head on a rock.
mcawhite 1 year ago
@mcawhite AMEN TO THAT! We don't need retarded Americans or otherwise ruining our beautiful province.
mmanna82 1 year ago
America's got the biggest oil disaster in history. These 'eco' fuckers are pointing fingers at Alberta? Hey 'edo' fuckers. Go shove your cocks up Obama's ass and keep your fucking nose out of Alberta, eh?
islamstillsucksallah 1 year ago
Now, about the water they use. 80% is recycled over and over again. water not used flows directly into the Arctic Ocean, It's not like their gonna miss it , or some farmer reallly needs it
nielset 1 year ago
How about buying oil from Muslim terrorist countries instead so they can develope nuclear weapons? yea, that will save the planet!
Or how about from the ruskies, so they can continue to fund their U.S. spy rings!
nielset 1 year ago
The tarsands COVER an area twice the size of england. that doesn't mean it will destroy that area. Thats like saying the entire state of Texas is destroyed by all the drilling activity there. Lenin had a name for people like these. "usefull idiots"
nielset 1 year ago
Wonderful......another group of uninformed Americans trying to draw attention away from their own mess.
WoundedBear2k 1 year ago
The US can boycot us if they like. They'll be boycotting their own companies!
whiteynut 1 year ago 2
@whiteynut
exactly their so dumb i'll bet they don't even know that. Halliburton is one of the largest in alberta. They are like fox news make shit up as they go along,
tanyalabonte 1 year ago
'We want Alberta and Canada to quit interfering in our efforts in the United States to end our addiction to oil.'—Michael Marx, Corporate Ethics International
Alberta is an arrogant peice of crap stop comparing the US to Canada.
travelblogs85 1 year ago
Finally it seems that regular people - inside and outside Alberta - are slowly getting the message that the tarsands are an environmental nightmare. Great video and cudos for spreading the message.
ps - To the pro-tarsands commenters: Your arguments would make more sense if you could address the facts presented in this video.
kamelhead 1 year ago
@kamelhead there are only one sided facts, not represented here are the efforts of the government and Oil companies working together to make less damage to the environment. Reforestation of land used and replanted, the ponds safer for wildlife the birds etc. Efforts are made to reduce damage THAT IS NOT EVEN SHOWN on this video. So Address FACTS which this video does not!
BlackMumba38 1 year ago
@kamelhead your video is all crap leave it to a stupid americans to believe what he/she sees on tv.All of a sudden americans are damn experts of the situation. I live in alberta have all my life. I wish there was such thing as an intelligent american
forsaken187666 1 year ago
this video is fucking hilarious. half the clips of the ponds are reclamation areas being pumped full of sand water. the water evaporates and all thats left is sand. maybe you should worry about destroying the fucking oceans like you americans already have and continue you to do before you start attacking others. it isnt taking the spot light off you. fucking hippie fags
kaseykacsmarik 1 year ago
Typical moronic garbage. Divert the problems you have in your country and blame someone else. Rethink USA?
allheer 1 year ago
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This video is a complete fraud. The oil sands are a thousand miles from the mountains. There are accidents but those are well-documented. Do not believe this propaganda. I will gladly support Alberta on my next vacation. Now, don't you Americans have some illegal wars to attend to?
tvdruggedzombie 1 year ago
This video is a complete fraud. The oil sands are a thousand miles from the mountains. There are accidents but those are well-documented. Do not believe this propaganda. I will gladly support Alberta on my next vacation. Now, don't you Americans have some illegal wars to attend to?
tvdruggedzombie 1 year ago
alberta is gross but look in the usa is more gross then alberta canada
tazz12000 1 year ago
i'm deaf and the closed captioning doesn't work on this even though you got a button for it... i live in the USA i am a US citizen and yes i agree the USA are full of the most dumbest and ignorant people on Earth!
terrytheterrifyc 1 year ago 3
I guess they are hoping to get more tourists to go fishing in the gulf ?
Bullshit gives off green house gas too....and where on the planet can you find more bullshit than in the USA ? 99% of them don't know where Canada is anyway... Maybe we should ask them how they keep their country so clean and pollution free ? .....that would be a breath of fresh air I bet.
horseinmail 1 year ago 4
I think a more appropriate campaign would be: "Rethink the Gulf of Mexico." This campaign is nothing but a pithy attempt to deflect attention from the US - unfortunately for this group, anybody but an American will see through this attempted boycott of Alberta.
askuared 1 year ago 11
@askuared Everything needs to be "rethought" we're destroying the environment everywhere. Americans, Canadians, we are all guilty.
spatzy 1 year ago
@spatzy While we may all be "destroying" the environment, targeting Alberta's tourism industry is no way to go about effecting change. The sheer hypocrisy of this project is what so many of us are upset about (with respect to the Gulf of Mexico disaster). This is nothing but a smeer campaign.
askuared 1 year ago
@askuared
This comment is moronic.
The Alberta tar-sands are a travesty and need to be stopped.
Westicularcancer 1 year ago
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@Westicularcancer I'd be more inclined to agree with you if your comment was appropriately placed. This video is targeting the tourism industry, which incidentally has nothing to do with the tar sands. The only thing moronic is that you can't see through the goal of "rethinking Alberta."
askuared 1 year ago
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@Westicularcancer I'd be more inclined to agree with you if your comment was appropriately placed. This video is targeting the tourism industry, which incidentally has nothing to do with the tar sands. The only thing moronic is that you can't see through the goal of "rethinking Alberta."
askuared 1 year ago
@Westicularcancer
This commenter is moronic.
He/she is a travesty and needs to be stopped.
dumbreligiousperson 1 year ago
@Westicularcancer our tourism has NOTHING to do with the tar sands! Whether or not one support the tar sands doesn't give them justification to support this moronic campaign. We are so much more than the tar sands and boycotting the entire province will only hurt the people, not the tar sands.
skitscuddlydoo 1 year ago
Excellent video. I hope that you will make a different!
esurfer26 1 year ago
@esurfer26
You must be one dumb American that lives in the bush, no vehicle, no power, no big screen tv right? Watching YouTube from your hemp made laptop run off solar power?... Wake the fuck up!
7dustinkramer7 1 year ago
If this ad campaign keeps the eco-activists and those stupid enought to be influenced by this drivel from coming to Alberta on their vacations, I guess I'd have to say I'm totally in favor. You go, crazy tree-huggers!!!!!
wlp1 1 year ago 3
fuck the usa.
vikas713 1 year ago 4
Maybe this group should look with in their borders where they have the worst environmental disaster in human history happening RIGHT NOW!!!! o wait i'll get it started "thinking of visiting the gulf coast or Britian (where BP is headquartered) THINK AGAIN!!!!)
wheels069 1 year ago 2
Mic Drops....Im out
dustbuster85 1 year ago
DONT FUCK WITH ALBERTA....WE ARE CRAZIER THAN TEXAS
dustbuster85 1 year ago
why the hell is this group pushing away one of America's very few freinds, and thank god they don't have a problem with us like they do with Mexico.
bwazzzy 1 year ago
Think you know Alberta? Neither do you guys All you see is bad You dont see the good thi industry has done Sure I will admit that smoke stacks do release large amounts of C02 but I could guarantee that New York city releases way more carbon dioxide than the oil sands Then there was the ducks that died in that industrial pond I think you viewers should be disturbed that people sat there with a camera and filmed all this suffering instead of ending it via firearm Come to alberta see 4 yourself
robotinhidding 1 year ago
Many Canadians are just as appalled with the Tar Sands and want a sustainable clean energy future for the earth. We don't want oil tankers on our oceans, offshore oil drilling or pipelines. We want green energy. I feel that "Oil is the new Tobacco". Come and check out our hip hop spoof "Oil BP Naughty to Nature" on youtube. Its a parody of O.P.P. by Naughty by Nature. Thanks! Yours for the planet. Duane
DuaneBurnettdotcom 1 year ago
@DuaneBurnettdotcom Is putting out a video full of false information the way to do it?
dustbuster85 1 year ago 2
@dustbuster85 not sure what you are referring to as false information? The Oil BP Naughty to Nature video spoofing the Gulf Oil Spill?
DuaneBurnettdotcom 1 year ago
@DuaneBurnettdotcom Actually i was referring to the video at the top of the page.....hhrmmm duhhhh
dustbuster85 1 year ago
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DuaneBurnettdotcom 1 year ago
@DuaneBurnettdotcom WHAT ARE THE FALSE FACTS????? R U SERIOUS??? FOR STARTERS:
Size of England 130,395 km2
Size of Alberta 661,848 km2
2x size of England 260,790 km2
Size of Alberta 661,848km2 - double England 260,790km2 = 401,058km2
So they say about 1/3 of Alberta is being destroyed by the oil sands.
SECOND: the lake at the start of this smere video is near Banff (nearly 1000km away)
THIRD: Look into how many birds are killed each year by wind turbines (100000 – 300000)
dustbuster85 1 year ago 2