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Alberta Canada Tar Sands
This video essay examines the contentious nature of oil and gas pipelines, including Keystone XL and Dakota Access. It highlights how new pipeline construction risks locking us into decades of fossil fuel reliance.
Support future videos via Patreon, Twitter, and Facebook. Further resources cover pipeline safety, the Keystone XL timeline, renewable energy goals, and a Keystone XL explanation.
ExxonMobil is conducting cleanup operations following a significant oil spill in central Arkansas. A ruptured 20-inch "Pegasus" tar sands pipeline released thousands of barrels of crude oil from Canada near Mayflower, forcing nearly two dozen home evacuations.
The Environmental Protection Agency has classified this incident as a "major spill." For more details, visit Democracy Now.
The world's largest industrial energy project is causing extensive environmental devastation in Alberta, Canada. This operation extracts crude oil from bitumen beneath the pristine boreal forest, impacting land, water, and air across an area equivalent to Florida or England.
Both industry and government prioritize financial gain over public health and environmental security. This critical assessment was originally uploaded on April 27, 2011.
At the Rights of Mother Earth International Indigenous Conference, Canadian activist Clayton Thomas-Muller delivered a speech addressing the devastating impact of Tar Sands on his people, describing it as a "science fiction nightmare."
A member of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba, Thomas-Muller is a prominent advocate for indigenous self-determination and environmental justice.
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The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection
“The Thinking Game” is the inside story of DeepMind's groundbreaking AI research, culminating in the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold breakthrough. Filmed over five years by the award-winning team behind "AlphaGo," this documentary explores co-founder Demis Hassabis's lifelong pursuit of artificial general intelligence and the rigorous scientific journey from mastering strategy games to solving the 50-year-old protein folding problem.
Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, "The Thinking Game" is now available to watch for free. For those interested in hosting a screening for a classroom, community, or workplace, visit: rocofilms.com/films/the-thinking-game/.
