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With the birth of the oil industry in western Canada came an American dream to blow it all up. Part 1 of 3.

Watch Part 2 here: https://youtu.be/2gUtHtpycLg
Watch Part 3 here: https://youtu.be/dhKwZG1-_Pk

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LandandLore
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/connormosquera.bsky.social

Sources:
Developing Alberta’s Oil Sands: From Karl Clark to Kyoto, Paul Chastko (2004)
Stupid to the last drop: how Alberta is bringing environmental Armageddon to Canada (and doesn't seem to care), William Marsden (2008)
The K. A. Clark Volume, Research Council of Alberta (1963)
Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant (2023)
Basic Properties: Oil Sands, Bitumen and Heavy Oil, Oil Sands Magazine (2022)
Alberta Culture and Tourism - Oil Sands (Accessed 2024)
Alberta’s Petroleum Industry and the Conservation Board, David H. Breen (1993)
Imagining the Tar Sands 1880-1967 and Beyond, M. Gismondi and D. J. Davidson (2012)
Recovering Oil from Shale with Nuclear Explosives, D. B. Lombard (1965)
The Soviet Program for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions, M. D. Nordyke (1996)
The Canadian Encyclopedia - Bomarc Missile Crisis (2021)
Fractional Distillation, Enserva (Accessed 2024)
Manley Natland’s Memorial, M. L. Hill Whittier and C. W. Hoskins Brea (1991)
Canadian History: Post-Confederation, J. D. Belshaw (2016)
U.S. Crude Oil First Purchase Price dataset, U.S. Energy Information Administration (Accessed 2024)

Music from the Youtube Audio Library in order of appearance:
Knowpe - Noir Et Blanc Vie
MydNyte - Noir Et Blanc Vie
Cowboy Lullaby - JHS Pedals
Dude, Where's My Horse - Nat Keefe with The Bow Ties
Absolutely Nothing - Jeremy Blake
The Beacon - Zachariah Hickman
Badlands - ELPHNT
Tumbleweed Texas - Chris Haugen
Who's Using Who - The Mini Vandals
Birdseye Blues - Chris Haugen
To Weather a Storm - Dan Lebowitz
Lucid Haze - Amulets
Anxious - Sextile
TrueArtRealAffectionPart4 - Noir Et Blanc Vie
Skying - Public Memory
Final Girl - Jeremy Blake
Boards - Francis Preve
Seductress - Francis Preve
Traversing - Godmode
To Pass Time - Godmode
2020 - Dyalla
Subterranean Howl - ELPHNT
Asleep with the Sun - Unicorn Heads
Ether Oar - The Whole Other
Smokey Eye - Cheel
Milky Way - Ramzoid

Assets:
Fat Man by ArtEast. is licensed under CC. Available at https://skfb.ly/oNOJ6
Oil Pump Jack by Machine Meza is licensed under CC. Available at https://skfb.ly/6UCnI
Grandfather Clock by Lyskilde is licensed under CC. Available at https://skfb.ly/6XN6V
Molecular models imported using the CGFigures Asset Library, licensed under CC. Available at https://www.cgfigures.ca/assetlibrary

00:00 A-bombs and Alberta
06:48 Senators and Oilers
20:49 Stuck in the mud
39:28 Swords and plowshares
48:04 Poison in the well

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