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SUMMARY:"White Water, Black Gold" - Esquimalt
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/white-water-black-gold-esquimalt/
LOCATION:Esquimalt United Church :: 500 Admirals Rd Victoria, 
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:When hiking guide David Lavallee 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 icefields…to oilfields.=0D=0A=
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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. View the trailer.=0D=0A=
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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.=0D=0A=
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In the course of his journey David 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.=0D=0A=
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“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.=0D=0A=

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