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'White Water, Black Gold'
General Event Information
Event Category:
Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver Island
Price:
free
Dates and Times:
February 20, 7:00PM-9:00PM
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Please join Sierra Victoria for a screening of “White Water Black Gold” - a powerful documentary chronicling the multifaceted devastating effects of the Alberta tar sands as director David Lavelle follows a “drop of water” from the Columbia ice fields through the Alberta oil fields. The screening will be followed by an opportunity to meet the film-maker and a Q&A session with Sierra Club BC's dedicated campaign staff. As a mountaineer and hiking guide, David is on the front lines of climate change. Over the past 15 years he has worked in the Columbia Icefields of the Canadian Rockies, and has noticed profound changes in the mountains: climate change is rendering these landscapes unrecognizable. When David discovers that his province is ramping up growth in an extremely water-intensive industry downstream of his beloved icefields, he is surprised he knows so little about this industry. This necessitates a journey: from ice fields…to oil fields. In the course of his journey he makes many discoveries: new science shows that water resources in an era of climate change will be increasingly scarce (putting this industry at risk); first nations people living downstream are contracting bizarre cancers; the upgrading of this oil threatens multiple river systems across Canada and the tailings ponds containing the waste by-products of the process threaten to befoul the third largest watershed in the world. Additionally, a planned pipeline across British Columbia brings fresh threats to BC Rivers and the Pacific Ocean. “White Water, Black Gold” is a sober look at the untold costs (to water and people) associated with developing the second largest deposit of “oil” in the world. |
Venue Information
Venue:
Address:
2037 Shields Road
City:
Sooke
State:
BC
Zip Code:
V9Z 0P7
Country:
Canada
Telephone:
250 642-5521
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