To the Tar Sands

To the Tar Sands

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2008

Runtime

1h 1m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

To the Tar Sands

Production Companies

Saddlebag Productions

Director

Jodie Martinson

Description

To The Tar Sands follows a group of nineteen young environmentalists as they cycle over 1,300 kilometres northbound across Alberta to witness the impacts of Alberta’s tar sands boom firsthand. They talk to farmers, moms and dads, an urban planner, oil industry workers, the chief of a First Nations community and others along the way asking “How has the tar sands boom affected you?” As the kilometres click away, they excavate into their own complicity with Alberta’s rush to develop the tar sands.