OIL RESIDUE LANDFILL FROM THE EXPLOITATION OF OIL SANDS

In the world’s trash heaps, the poorest dig through waste to survive, while we continue to drill, searching for resources we believe are essential. We push farther and farther—into untouched lands, into deposits that are harder and harder to exploit. We refuse to change our ways.
Will we run out of liquid oil? No matter—we can extract oil from Canada’s tar sands. The world’s largest trucks haul thousands of tons of sand. It is churned, heated, separated—millions of cubic meters of water consumed just to strip bitumen from rock. The energy cost is massive, but the pollution is catastrophic.
Nothing seems more urgent than draining every last pocket of sunlight.

Excerpt from the film Home
by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Co-written with Isabelle Delannoy and Tewfik Fares
With the kind permission of the GoodPlanet Foundation
© 2009 Europacorp - Elzevir Films