CBC - Doc Zone - Tar Sands - The Selling of Alberta

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CBC - Doz Zone

Tar Sands - The Selling of Alberta

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Type.................: documentary

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Part Size............: 15,000,000 bytes

Number of Parts......: 49

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Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta captures the intersecting storylines of

a remarkable cast of characters eager to cash in on the oil boom in Fort

McMurray, Alberta. Washington lobbyists, Newfie pipefitters, Chinese investors

and Norwegian industrialists descend on tar-soaked "Fort McMoney", a modern-day

Eldorado, where rents are sky rocketing and cocaine abuse is four times the

provincial average. Up for grabs - a stake in a $100 billion energy bonanza

and Canada's economic sovereignty.



This hour-length documentary, commissioned by the CBC, tracks the growth of

the world's largest reserve of 'unconventional' oil. This Florida-sized

"environmental sacrifice zone" has become Canada's contribution to U.S. energy

security in the post-9/11 world. Yet, for many, the tar sands are a global

warming disaster.



As Fort McMurray bursts at the seams, children from Thunder Bay to Cape Breton

are made tar-sands orphans by their migrant-worker parents. Canada's

petrodollar breaks the back of the manufacturing economy in the East. Cancer

rates skyrocket downstream of Fort McMurray while Rocky Mountain glaciers melt

and disappear. And all the while, Alberta crude goes south to U.S. markets

while Eastern Canada pays ever more for insecure Middle East oil.



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