Source: YouTube
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
Dirty Oil
(available to watch online)
Downstream
-- (available to watch online)
H2Oil
Petropolis
Check out a new
promising technology to eliminate tailing ponds:
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 team up with Bill McKibben and Josh Fox and
let your voice be heard.
Original source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkwoRivP17A
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