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=XMmpg3... 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_BBG...

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

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-u...

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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[HeRoiiN XBL]

false, the polls tell a completely different story, the young people today, 18-30 are completely different from the young people 20 years ago. This kind of shit is going to end, the prejudices, environmental issues and human rights are becoming more and more important. It's only a matter of time before all these old bastards are dead and buried and when that day comes it will be a great day for the world as we know it.

[HeRoiiN XBL]

Money is the ultimate drug and until we get these countries to be self sustainable this kind of shit will never end. It's time for these old fuckers killing this country to just die off. They have done so much damage for such a long time that it's about time they all just die off.

[thesharktummy]

Hey guys please read this IT IS NOT SPAM

So im really intrigued in this cause and created a facebook page to advocate the ban of it.PLEASE CHECK IT OUT AND LIKE IT to spread awareness.

facebook.com/pages/Stop-The-Al­bertan-Oil-Sands-Development/6­37026092980060

[robert ludlum]

Now you sound like a very young and stupid person.

[Brycon Casey]

Agreed. Fucking Conservative oil scum.

[EruditeCanadian]

It does seem to be younger people that gravitate towards socialism, and older people gravitate towards capitalism, isn't it?

I know that I thought socialism, even communism were the best thing when I was young. Then I got a job, started paying taxes and realized how shitty socialism can be.

Cheers.

[robert ludlum]

Good thing for Canada, there are more and more older people and they have more sense than to elect a NDP acommie government.

[rosydonut]

Money money money, hear it sing. It's talking through the mouths of these puppets.

[Zemecton]

@ Erudite Canadian:

If this is going to go on much further, I suggest we move it to email. We are going to drown out other peoples' comments by posting so many of our own.

[Zemecton]

Everyone pays the same relative amount for healthcare, and everyone gets healthcare. Not everyone can get social welfare, and when people pay for it in their taxes, they do so knowing it is because they know it is going to someone who can't work. Stop mixing up the issue.