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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks ,Carole good info to pass
on...and yes, of course, the oil industry can control the tests they pay for.
Ginny</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=caclinch@gmail.com href="mailto:caclinch@gmail.com">Carole Clinch</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=all@gren.ca
href="mailto:all@gren.ca">all@gren.ca</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:41
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [All] January 27 8 pm Tipping
Point: The Age of the Oil Sands</DIV>
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<H1><B>Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands</B></H1><FONT
size=2><I>Thursday January 27 at 8 pm on CBC-TV, repeating Saturday February 5
at 7 pm ET on CBC News Network <BR><BR>Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil
Sands</I> is a two-hour visual <I>tour de force</I>, taking viewers inside the
David and Goliath struggle playing out within one of the most compelling
environmental issues of our time. <BR><BR>In an oil-scarce world,
we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy. What
no one expected was that a tiny Native community downriver from Canada’s oil
sands would reach out to the world, and be heard.<BR> <BR>Highway 63
north of Fort McMurray, Syncrude base plant in background <BR><BR>Directed by
Edmonton filmmakers Tom Radford and Niobe Thompson of <A
href="http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2011/tippingpoint/www.clearwatermedia.com"
target=_blank>Clearwater Media</A>, and hosted by Dr. David Suzuki, this
special presentation of <I>The</I> <I>Nature</I> <I>of Things</I> goes behind
the headlines to reveal how a groundbreaking new research project triggered a
tipping point<B> </B>for the<B> </B>Alberta oil sands.<BR><BR>For years,
residents of the northern Alberta community of Fort Chipewyan, down the
Athabasca River from the oil sands, have been plagued by rare forms of cancer.
They were concerned that toxins from oil sands production might be to
blame. Industry and government, meanwhile, claimed production in the oil
sands contributed zero pollution to the Athabasca River.<BR> <BR>Dr.
David Schindler holding a fish from the river. <BR><BR>But in 2010, new and
independent research measured pollution in waters flowing through the oil
sands and discovered higher-than-expected levels of toxins, including arsenic,
lead and mercury, coming from industrial plants. Leading the research was
renowned freshwater scientist Dr. David Schindler (<A
href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/10/15/f-david-schindler.html"
target=_blank> read more about David Schindler</A>). At the same time, the
leaders of tiny Fort Chipewyan took their battle to the boardrooms of global
oil companies, demanding change. <BR><BR>Leading the campaign was Dene Elder
Francois Paulette, whose battles with Ottawa a generation ago launched the era
of modern land claims. >From New York, to Copenhagen, to Oslo, to the
oil sands themselves, our camera followed Paulette on his relentless search
for allies. When he finally enlisted the support of <I>Avatar</I>
director James Cameron, Paulette created a storm of controversy for the
Alberta’s oil sands industry.<BR> <BR>Hauling truck and tailing pond,
Syncrude. <BR><BR>By the end of 2010, Schindler’s alarming discovery of toxic
pollution and the media attention Cameron’s visit had raised was putting
federal and provincial environmental policy under serious pressure.
Separate reports by Canada’s Auditor General, the Royal Society of Canada, and
a panel of experts appointed by then Environment Minister Jim Prentice
revealed a decade of incompetent pollution monitoring, paid for by industry,
in Alberta’s oil sands.<BR><BR>The documentary’s climax shows how Professor
Schindler's research findings, and the determination of Fort Chipewyan
residents, led to change. In December 2010, the special scientific
review by the high-level federal panel declared environmental monitoring
standards in the oil sands seriously flawed. In a dramatic reversal of their
previous position, both the Federal and Alberta governments announced steps to
improve their pollution monitoring. The age of innocence for the oil
sands is over.<BR><BR>Tipping Point was directed by Niobe Thompson and Tom
Radford for <A href="http://www.clearwatermedia.com/" target=_blank>Clearwater
Media</A> in association with CBC-TV.</FONT><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Carole
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