Tar Sands Oil Extraction - The Dirty Truth

Environmental devastation of the land, water, and air - the largest industrial energy project in the world is extracting crude oil from bitumen found beneath the pristine boreal forest of Alberta, Canada. Effecting a land mass equivalent in size to Florida or England, Both industry and government are putting money before the health and security of its people and the environment.

Tar sands take 3 barrels of water to process every barrel of oil extracted. Ninety percent of this water becomes so toxic that it must be stored in tailing ponds. Unfortunately these ponds regularly leach pollution into the third largest watershed in the world.

Water depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination has become one of the most important issues facing humanity this century. Check out my other video on water issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMmpg35Bym0 and see my other videos to learn about the dark side of fossil fuels.

To learn more about tar sands, be sure to check out the featured film sources listed below. Find out more about what you can do and how to support the film makers.

Crude Sacrifice
http://www.crudesacrifice.com/

Dirty Oil (available to watch online)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_BBGuCs20

Downstream -- (available to watch online)
http://www.babelgum.com/3015242/downstream.html

H2Oil
http://h2oildoc.com/home/

Petropolis
http://www.petropolis-film.com/

Check out a new promising technology to eliminate tailing ponds:
http://www.gizmag.com/ionic-liquids-used-to-process-tar-sands/18214/

Tar sands development can be minimized by blocking development of pipelines, such as Keystone XL, that carry the sludge of this incredibly polluting energy project. Tell Canada to clean up this mess and join with Bill McKibben and Josh Fox and let your voice be heard.

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[MsArtisticangel]

@finefilth Fine filth indeed. Your misguided, angry comments have no relevance whatsoever to the problem. You are a consumer, therefore are just as guilty as anyone else of contributing to the problem. Put your money where your mouth is and live without any modern conveiniences, then perhaps you might be taken seriously.

[BostonCreamDonut]

@BuckingFeast Lmao shows your education, a one word response, quite the response. Guess you and your room temperature IQ can`t think of anything else to say. So here`s a tip go crawl back into your little hole and wither away into obscurity.

[BuckingFeast]

@BostonCreamDonut Idiot.

[BostonCreamDonut]

@redshift40 Hey im not conservative by any means. Im as liberal as you can get. I`ll be honest there are ways of getting that sand without compromising the environment as much as it is now. End of the day oil + business = money, its 2012 if you haven`t caught on yet, money makes the world go round. Money triumphs.

[redshift40]

@BostonCreamDonut - spoken like a true knuckle dragger conservative christian asshole.

[BostonCreamDonut]

Hey its not dirty, the world needs oil, its in our land, god put it there, we`re just scooping it up.

[SuperTurbo1200]

@mattpolofka Exactly because the technology isn't there yet. We are moving forward its just gonna take a few decades its not gonna happen over night. Soon our homes will be wind powerd and public transportation will be more vast. But until they can make a full size pick up truck capable of making 400 horse and 600 foot pounds of tourqe that is electric people just won't make the switch. by 2050 the world will be way greener. Its just gonna take time thats all.

[mattpolofka]

@SuperTurbo1200 that we need to start using more alternative energy sources and stop consuming to such excess. I don't think it's really that complicated of a message, people just don't want to consume less and businesses don't wanna switch to alternative energy because it;s more expensive.

[Ellipser]

Alberta is to oil what Arkansas was to cocaine.

[SuperTurbo1200]

@limabeing Typing on your computer makes you part of it ! Its like I want a car, a house, clothing and food ! Car needs oil to run, I need oil to heat my house, the cloths I wear are made with oil and I need oil to fuel the trucks that deliver and process my food ! BUT FUCK OIL AND EVERY THING HOOKED TOO IT !!.......... Are you all fucking idiots ?? Honestly ??? Its dirty and awful but are you unaware that everything runs on it right now ?? I'm just wondering what some of you will say !