alberta,peak oil,oil sands,vice,vbs,climate,environmental,destruction Toxic Alberta (Pt. 1) -- The future of oil Sucks

Toxic Alberta (Pt. 1) -- The future of oil Sucks

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tags: alberta, peak oil, oil sands, vice, vbs, climate, environmental, destruction

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“A Peak Oil Primer from CBC's "The Hour"”

A cursory documentary on Canada's tar sand production and associated consequences. As international competition for oil increases and large fields of yesteryear pass peak (i.e. North Sea and Cantarall) we will witness greater desperation from our wanton and insatiable society. I truly hope that foresight driven policy steers us to more sustainable forms of energy but I have my doubts.

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Part II can be found here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Investigative-report-on-Albertas-oil-sands-mines

The documentary in its entirety is found at: http://www.vbs.tv

Prescient words by Vonnegut on the subject: http://www.videosift.com/video/Kurt-Vonnegut-Addicted-to-oil

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^calvados, thanks for catching the language. My internal monologue starts cussin' like crazy when I watch docs like this so I don't notice the occasional swear. The first step in fixing problems facing our future is education. Even if we need to beg/*promote people to pay attention.

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This "documentary" also sucks. There is lots of information available about the Tar Sands in Alberta, but the video doesn't present any of it. They just video tape themselves visiting a few sites and speculating about peak oil. Documentary's are supposed to present facts. Ideally facts that are important but not well known, this video doesn't present anything more than the existence of the Tar Sands in Alberta, and just how much oil they have in them(and no actual numbers, they just they have "a lot"). That's all common knowledge, high school students would be expected to come up with more for a school report.

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^bcglorf; I agree the doc is about is soft as it gets. Hopefully it serves an introduction to the subject tho. That being said, the doc, when watched in its entirety (the other 14 pts), does get the sociological/psychological impact down pretty well. Vice is group of hipsters so their science is real thin but they get the emotion of the deal right. This for better or worse appeals to more people than EROEI equations, groundwater modeling, hubbert's curves, and export land models.

One of the best scientific and factual resources I've found is the following blog:
www.theoildrum.com

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