{"id":1873,"date":"2010-04-12T13:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:52:51","slug":"h2oil-exposing-canadas-oil-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/h2oil-exposing-canadas-oil-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"H2Oil: exposing Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oil industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: H2Oil<\/figcaption><\/figure>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start Monday with a trailer of a documentary about the plight of the people who live in the Canadian province of Alberta, where Big Oil is destroying the environment and depleting water supplies. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s yet another reminder of why fossil fuel is a disaster for the planet and the all the living beings who inhabit it.
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(From the film\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website):<\/p>\n

Ever wonder where America gets most of its oil? If you thought it was Saudi Arabia or Iraq you are wrong. America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest oil supplier has quickly become Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oil sands. Located under Alberta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pristine boreal forests, the process of oil sands extraction uses up to 4 barrels of fresh water to produce only one barrel of crude oil.
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It goes without saying that water \u00e2\u20ac\u201d its depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has become the most important issue to face humanity in this century. At the same time, the war for oil is well underway across the globe. A struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil, not only over them.<\/p>\n

Alberta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oil sands are at the centre of this tension. As the province rushes towards a large-scale extraction, the social, ecological and human impacts are hitting a crisis point. In only a few short years the continent will be a crisscross of pipelines, reaching from the arctic all the way to the southern US, leaving toxic water basins the size of Lake Ontario, and surface-mines as large as Florida.<\/p>\n

H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion. Unlikely alliances are built and lives are changed as they come up against the largest industrial project in human history.<\/p>\n

Ultimately we ask what is more important, oil or water? And what will be our response?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Click here<\/a> to find out more about the film and upcoming screenings.<\/p>\n

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