Alberta's oil sands are growing & it's poisoning Canada

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An exponential boom of growth in the late 90s for the oil sands industry transformed Alberta’s economy… and brought with it an unavoidable array of environmental problems. Part 3 of 3. Watch Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/EmPzZRcXrp4 Watch Part 2 here: https://youtu.be/2gUtHtpycLg 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) Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant (2023) Alberta Culture and Tourism - Oil Sands (Accessed 2024) Alberta’s Petroleum Industry and the Conservation Board, David H. Breen (1993) Canadian History: Post-Confederation, J. D. Belshaw (2016) U.S. Crude Oil First Purchase Price dataset, U.S. Energy Information Administration (Accessed 2024) OPEC.org (Accessed 2024) How to Build the World’s Largest Oil Pipeline System, Sean Kheraj (2019) Crude oil historical production dataset, CAPP (Accessed 2024) Oil sands historical production dataset, CAPP (Accessed 2024) EVOLUTION of Canada’s oil and gas industry, Robert D. Bott (2004) History of In-Situ Extraction in the Oil Sands, Oil Sands Magazine (2024) Facilities & Infrastructure, Oil Sands Magazine (2024) Stephen Harper and the Future of Canada, William Johnson (2006) CBC archives CPAC archives Open Parliament archives All music by Karl Casey/White Bat Audio (@whitebataudio) Grandfather Clock by Lyskilde is licensed under CC. Available at https://skfb.ly/6XN6V 00:00 Peak Oil 04:16 The Alberta Advantage 17:13 Wild Rose Wasteland 43:05 Oil’s well that ends well