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December 13, 2007 There was an excellent 24-minute feature report on the tar sands by Darrow MacIntyre on CBC's The National yesterday evening. You can watch the video online by clicking here. David Schindler was prominently featured, as was the Pembina Institute, and Dr. Timiny, a health researcher studying the health impact of the tar sands. The other side was represented by Greg Stringham of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Rob Renner, Alberta's (so-called) environment minister. There was a visual reference to the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and the January 2006 meeting in Houston that discussed the fivefold increase in production and the coordinating/ streamlining of regulations. Schindler said the tar sands are "not doing Canadians any good, the oil is going to feed the US machine. It's certainly not doing eastern Canadians any good - they're relying on the Middle Eastern oil that Bush wants to avoid by taking tar sands oil." The CBC reported some interesting figures:
The documentary also talks about the amount of boreal forest that is destroyed to create the mines, the cancer rates among the Fort Chipewyan First Nations, the deformities of the fish in the water, and the 80 square kilometres of toxic tailing ponds. Schindler says if he were a millionaire he would fly every Canadian over the tar sands because if they saw it they would not allow it.
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