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Fighting Goliath tells the story of the frenetic exploitation of the Canadian tar sands and its rippling effects across the continent. The Canadian Tar Sands is the largest industrial project on earth. These deposits of a sand-embedded solid form of low-grade oil cover an area the size of Florida. Everything about the this project in the northeast corner of Alberta is enormous: sprawling open pit mines collectively the size of a large metropolitan area; mining equipment the height of a three story building; toxic tailings ponds that can be seen from outer space. But people far from Alberta are also starting to feel the effects of the tar sands’ massive footprint that includes inputs and outputs stretching across Canada, through the heartland of the United States, down the Pacific coast and across the Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest. 7 PM Monday July 14 and 5 PM Tuesday July 15
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 03:00:17 +0000

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