View entire film on Eco Watch http://ecowatch.org/2013/white-water-black-gold/
Eco Watch featured David Lavallee’s very accessible film White Water, Black Gold and I could not resist sharing after viewing it online. It does more than bring the toxic waste of Canada’s Tar Sands into view because it also presents some clean green alternatives that are already being successfully utilized not just in Germany, but ironically in Canada as well. What are the rest of us waiting for? For the Big Oil Companies to milk out all the profits possible while creating waste toxic waste dumps that destroy fresh water all living things depend upon for life? We cannot drink oil. Oil cannot make food crops grow. Plants need water. No wheat crop means no bread.
Make no mistake that Big Oil and corporations like Monsanto do not comprehend the situation despite their public relations denial spins. They do indeed and they want to use it to serve their own ends. There are reasons that Monsanto wants to patent all seeds for their own profit. There are reasons some Americans are NOT allowed to “catch” rainwater in barrels for gardening. The reasons are profits for those who want to control all the natural resources that are basic to all forms of life. If ducks could pay taxes then they’d be taxed for swimming in ponds. Deer would be taxed for eating plants. Wolves would be taxed just for being alive. I suspect the predatory human population feels an innate threat from wolves who don’t care for domestication by humans as dogs do. Wolves don’t need or want us humans. I don’t wonder why not. Perhaps it’s their independence which has set off the curent war on their very existence in the states. Could be. Wolves don’t give a damn about the corporate human economy. They’re bound only by the laws of nature. Oh, come to think of it, so are humans. Because in the end–it will be natural law which decides the survival of our species. It’s about time we all came to terms with that reality. Denial will not change outcome.
Gee, it appears I’ve gotten off the Tar Sands water usage and energy alternatives track of White Water, Black Gold. It may appear so. But since everything is connected–and we are all ‘related’–then I haven’t really gone off track. I’ve just followed a stream of thought. Continuing downstream . . . .
What this boils down to is values. Yes, what do we value? Our lives? All living things? Clean air? Clean water? Oil? Gas? Our oil dependent modes of transportation? What matters most to each of us? Why should each of us consider such questions? Because we’re the ones who will either change our ways for the betterment of all living things or we won’t. Whatever the politicians and corporations do amounts to their choices. We are responsible for ours, what we think, what we do, what we say. Does the state of the Earth reflect our values or those of someone else? Positive change is possible. We can make it. We may have to work very hard for it though. What are we waiting for?
I think we need to do more than get the President of the United States to shut down the Keystone Pipeline. The Tar Sands in Canada need to be shut down. Big Oil needs to be shut down everywhere. It’s time for a healthy change.
For more Tar Sands, Keystone and environmental news from Eco Watch http://ecowatch.org/2013/white-water-black-gold/
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artistatexit0 said,
February 19, 2013 at 4:50 pm
I watched another report on the XL pipeline which is up for review again. I can’t believe that building a pipeline from Alberta, across our farmland, to the Texas Gulf coast so this dirty oil can be exported is worth half the effort involved. I hope the President meant what he said about being concerned for the environment and moving on to more renewable forms of energy. The area in Alberta where they excavate these oil sands up looks like a major super fund site.
47whitebuffalo said,
February 21, 2013 at 9:38 pm
Well Al, do you have enough “hope” in the President’s nice speech for both of us? Right now, I’m willing to bet money that he won’t stop further construction of the pipeline. What an energy vs earth battle this might provoke? I sure don’t know. But the Tar Sands sure seems like a sure fired way to chop off one’s nose to spite one’s face. I had a gander at the Wall Street Journal the other day and it’s clear “those” folks live in an entirely different world than we do–Profit as a way of life–and the reason for living. Hm…
Dennis the Vizsla said,
February 17, 2013 at 7:11 pm
“Tar Sands” sounds like a place that manufactures cigarettes. Which wouldn’t be all that much different from what it really is, I guess …
47whitebuffalo said,
February 21, 2013 at 9:33 pm
Cigarettes force fed to the Earth’s air and water–yep, pretty much so, Dennis.
Yousei Hime said,
February 11, 2013 at 9:53 pm
FYI–Your link says “The creator of this video has not given you permission to embed it on this domain. This is a Vimeo Plus feature.”
47whitebuffalo said,
February 11, 2013 at 10:14 pm
Hi Poetic Rabbit. Yep, That did not appear until I completed the post. But you CAN view the entire film on Eco Watch. According to Vimeo WordPress is supposed to use iframe–which I have not yet figured out. Until then, PLEASE do surf the link to Eco Watch http://ecowatch.org/2013/white-water-black-gold/
🙂
Yousei Hime said,
February 11, 2013 at 10:17 pm
No problem. Mainly just told you because I thought you’d want to know. I hate going back to older posts and finding links inoperable. 🙂
47whitebuffalo said,
February 11, 2013 at 10:26 pm
Thank you, Yousei. It is good to get such feedback because sometimes things work at one end but not at another. Much appreciate your effort to communicate!