So I tend to go to Canada quite a bit. It’s a beautiful place, I must say.
Calgary is particularly my favorite. I have some wonderful family out there that are kind enough to make their home my home. The last time I was out there we started talking about the oil that was north of there. Apparently a process had been figured out to get oil out of the dirt and sands that were within the earth north of Edmonton. Basically, it was clear cutting and destroying land, and using what is left of fresh water to create a chemical process that boils everything out, washes the dirt left and there you have oil.
The more we were talking, the more interesting it became, something I had never thought before then, where our oil comes from and goes to. I’m from Mobile, Alabama, on the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. Everytime you look out there you see oil barges and platforms, burning the evening sky. It’s horrible. When talking to my friends in Calgary, they mentioned how they had a shortage of oil there when the hurricanes where hitting the Gulf. So this oil they make, destroy their land with, then comes to us.

Here’s an exert from a really interesting documentary H2Oil that should hopefully be available on video soon.

Speaking of clear cutting and Candians,
here’s an interesting exert from the new documentary End:CIV

Here’s another new one, dealing with one of the first premise’s of the book End:CIV

IF you get a chance, check out submedia.tv and watch “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”. It’s funny, but very informative.

One last video, an older one from Gogol Bordello,
“wanderlust king”