Tar Sands Oil Extraction - The Dirty Truth (youtube video)

[MitchJi]

Hi,

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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 (a documentary)

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

H2Oil
http://h2oildoc.com/home/

 

[neptronix]

Right on mitch

 

[lizardboy]

I hate what this is doing to the land. but All these wrong facts and streatching the truth don't help in my opinion. They ve just about stopped the open pit mining now. They use drilling and steam to remove the oil but not the dirt now and the water ratio is closer to 1:1 and new tech will make it almost zero . The real crime here is that most of these companies are largely owned by outside governments and companies china being one of the biggest ones and pay very low royalties. the get to double deduct their expenses against their royalties so you do the math.To cause all of this and not even be able to say that the oil refining and the jobs stay here because the deals signed make it imposible to even say no to them is wrong. Billions have been raped from this country over the years. we get to cut the wood but the logs get sent out as whole logs to mills in the states. If we try to mill them ourselves the US files endless dumping challenges with the WTO till they starve out and buy the mills. I can't even get good wood here for construction because the mills have guranteed contracts to supply the best to US customers first. We get to dig up the oil but when the pipelines get built it'll be exported to china to get refined. That I guess is better than getting told what your price is because you only have one customer (usa) but it means we'll all pay "world" prices now. This footage is 20 years old and most of these areas are slated to be pseudo restored with a cleverly simulated natural enviroment (like san diego) still a crime but it ain't really like this... The gold rush now there was a whole lot of digging and destroying