Part II can be found here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Investigative-report-on-Albertas-oil-sands-mines

The documentary in its entirety is found at: http://www.vbs.tv

Prescient words by Vonnegut on the subject: http://www.videosift.com/video/Kurt-Vonnegut-Addicted-to-oil

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^calvados, thanks for catching the language. My internal monologue starts cussin' like crazy when I watch docs like this so I don't notice the occasional swear. The first step in fixing problems facing our future is education. Even if we need to beg/*promote people to pay attention.

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This "documentary" also sucks. There is lots of information available about the Tar Sands in Alberta, but the video doesn't present any of it. They just video tape themselves visiting a few sites and speculating about peak oil. Documentary's are supposed to present facts. Ideally facts that are important but not well known, this video doesn't present anything more than the existence of the Tar Sands in Alberta, and just how much oil they have in them(and no actual numbers, they just they have "a lot"). That's all common knowledge, high school students would be expected to come up with more for a school report.

^bcglorf; I agree the doc is about is soft as it gets. Hopefully it serves an introduction to the subject tho. That being said, the doc, when watched in its entirety (the other 14 pts), does get the sociological/psychological impact down pretty well. Vice is group of hipsters so their science is real thin but they get the emotion of the deal right. This for better or worse appeals to more people than EROEI equations, groundwater modeling, hubbert's curves, and export land models.

One of the best scientific and factual resources I've found is the following blog:
www.theoildrum.com

Form about 1971 and onwards, the Progressive Conservative Party has won every election in Alberta with about 41% - 70% of the vote each time. The Liberal Party gets about 26% - 30%, and the rest is devided up between the multitude of other parties. Our voter turnout is also one of the lowest in Canada. Although Calgary and Edmonton have large amounts of intelligent, well informed individuals, we are outnumbered by a vast majority of white, baby boomer, SUV driving, soft right wing conservative types, who see the tremendous wealth generated by these energy policies, and vote every election for the status quo. If you had one of the highest standards of living, one of the most stable economies in north america (virtually untouched by the current "recession"), one of the highest rates of disposable income, wouldn't you feel comfortable voting to keep that system intact instead of plunging your entire economy into a virtual dark age?