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JTAblerta: This video, though it does draw attention to the environmental problems of the oilsands, gives an extraordinarily misleading look at the province of Alberta. This video implies that oil sands cover the entire province. Alberta is about the size of Texas, 661,848 km2 (255,541 sq mi), and the actual oil sands cover about 5-9% of that area in the remote north east part of the province. If this was an honest documentary, it would show that the vast majority of the province still has "pristine" wilderness. Go a couple hundred kilometers north of the Oil sands, and you will find one of the largest national parks in the world: Wood Buffalo. This video could be much more effective if it presented the province of Alberta in its entirity. Any ignorant viewer after watching this would think, that what goes on around Ft. McMurray is what the whole province is like, which is the furthest thing from the truth. Oh and on a side note for the filmmakers, pick up a geography book: though its cold in the winter, Fort McMurray is not in the "Tundra". That begins much farther north in the Northwest Territories where you would have to travel hundreds of kilometers north to reach the actual Tundra. In short a very dishonest documentary.

about 1 month ago

listenn2slayer: fuck it. these people need to make a living somehow. if its cutting down trees and working for oil companies so be it. It doesnt matter what anyone tries to do to stop this because the corporations have complete control over the people and even the government decisions. Waste your time on something else untill the world ends.

2 months ago

ohyouprettythingss: its no surprise that you can show up to alberta and find a job instantly. in this economy it is even easier to continue fueling this industry when people are in need of work. the government makes sure that most people are too arrogant to understand the ramifications of what they are getting involved in to make money. they have no idea what they are doing is ruining the environment. its not their fault.

2 months ago

rockpilerules: worrying about this is just about as stupid as thinking that buying anything organic is real. We need oil somehow. tree huggers need to chill out.

2 months ago

stiffrecords666: this really all leads back to how much we waste in order to acquire this new oil. We are attempting to harness a new resource of energy to continue our wasteful habits in the way that we transport and utilize oil on a daily basis. the truth of the matter is that in 50 years we really wont have the resources we need to participate in daily activities that we take for granted today. "who killed the electric car" is an interesting supplement to this clip as well as michael rupperts collapse. Governments make too much money off these endeavors and despite thier effect on the health and well being of the planet as well as human beings, they will continue this practice. Everything is oil. But there is a reason for our dependence on foreign oil in that it does not require the wasteful cleansing process and knocking down of trees to acquire. Our permanent bases in iraq speak volumes on how much we invest in extracting oil. There is nothing temporary about it, we are sitting on that oil for a reason and its not going to stop untill we run out. This is truly a domino effect and eventually, we are going to have to get close to the land we live on and learn to utilize what it has to offer us rather then continuing to rely on oil to bring us non-local resources and wasteful energy.

2 months ago

daddywheresmybourbon: oil in the dirt oil in the dirt sound like this place needs a bath

3 months ago

localola: alberta = nasty toxic zone

3 months ago

Df15Range: sure. someday the trees will get replanted.

3 months ago

ghostfingers: i'm glad jc knows where oxygen comes from

3 months ago

flasksandmasks: how is this even legal? to emit so many greenhouses gases. wtf?

3 months ago

OhHeroin: oil grosses me out.

3 months ago

Biff: Sand mining. That's so fucking weird.

3 months ago

cacophobia: whoa all of that smoke is so freaky

3 months ago

themadhatter: the loggers seem like great guys. i wonder if they ever have concerns about what they're doing or if it's just a job.

3 months ago

wtf: It's nice to see that opposite to the people in Alberta who are completely blind to the environmental destruction and think its a hoax there is another group out there that are completely unexposed to this industry and calling Alberta a wasteland. Ignorance is bliss.

3 months ago

bummerdude: the processing plants must look crazy from a passenger plane, if you can even see anything more than a huge cloud of pollutant shit.

3 months ago

KirbyPuckett: Hey, man. Al Gore was vice president of the United States. He had a few other things to worry about other than people in Alberta fucking everything up. This was your one and only job -- to worry about people in Alberta fucking everything up.

3 months ago

wholenineyards: i remember learning in elementary school that canada had a lot of oil. they didn't tell us about extraction.

3 months ago

QueenBee: JC is a character but would you want someone with a high-powered chainsaw around you after a hard night of partying? He already looks like a white Omar Little from a prior accident.

3 months ago

taco_baby: the white nigger? um, pardon me. aren't canadians supposed to be progressive? consider me disappointed. this guy is a dick.

3 months ago