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Tipping Point The Age of the Oil Sands
Title
Tipping Point [electronic resource (video)] : The Age of the Oil Sands / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c2011.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (90 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 13, 2012.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
For years, residents of the Canadian hamlet of Fort Chipewyan, located just downriver from petroleum deposits called "oil sands," have been plagued by rare forms of cancer. When officials denied a connection between the cancers and nearby industrial mining of the oil sands, First Nations elder Francois Paulette brought the issue all the way to the boardrooms of global oil companies. From New York to Copenhagen to Oslo to the oil sands themselves, this program takes viewers inside Paulette's David-and-Goliath battle for the health and safety of his community. With the support of film director James Cameron, Paulette created a storm of controversy that eventually revealed a decade of incompetent pollution monitoring in Canada's oil sands industry.
Variant and related titles
Age of Oil Sands
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Canada's Oil Sands: Energy Security for the Future (2:32)
Brain Tumors and Cancers (2:46)
Contaminated Fish (2:12)
Oil Company-Funded Consultants Monitor Water Quality (2:35)
Health Canada Attacks Local Doctor (2:13)
Community Leaders Bring in a Veteran Fighter (2:19)
Bad Publicity for a Key Canadian Industry (1:58)
Lobbyists to Washington (2:12)
Treaty Betrayed? (2:26)
Vast Impacts (2:58)
Disputed Facts (2:34)
Independent Study Results (2:33)
Cancer Study Results (2:18)
Bison Hunt (2:19)
2009 U.N. Climate Summit (3:11)
Lobbying at the Summit (2:31)
Disappointment in Copenhagen (2:47)
Avatar Parallels (2:59)
BP Gulf Oil Spill (3:10)
Migrating Birds; California Carbon Fuel Standards (2:05)
NRDC Targets Dirty Oil (3:02)
NRDC Media Campaign (2:08)
Politicians and Industry Respond (3:13)
Finding Alternatives to Dirty Oil (2:46)
Revolutions in Technology (2:05)
Norway Invests in Oil Sands (3:36)
James Cameron Engages (2:16)
James Cameron in Edmonton (2:49)
Schindler's Final Results (2:37)
Jobs vs. Health (2:18)
Schindler's Study Released (1:59)
Panel Report Condemns Monitoring Program (2:03)
U.S. Opposition Weakens (1:29)
Unsustainable Path (3:06)
Credits: Tipping Point: The Age of Oil Sands (0:59)
Videorecording number
48856 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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