H2Oil NZ Premiere

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H2OIL NEW ZEALAND PREMIERE

Students for Environmental Action and Amnesty International on Campus to hold documentary screening

DUNEDIN – September 13, 2010

The New Zealand premiere of documentary H2Oil is to be held at 7pm on Tuesday September 21st in the Teachers College Auditorium, Union Street East.

H2Oil is a hard hitting, Canadian made documentary about the extraction of oil from the tar sands in Northern Alberta Canada. The film is being screened by Students for Environmental Action and Amnesty International on Campus in an effort to raise awareness of the devastating human and environmental consequences of the extraction.

"Thanks to Alberta’s Athabasca oil sands, Canada is now the biggest oil supplier to the United States. A controversial billion-dollar industry is heavily invested in extracting crude from the tarry sands through a process so toxic it has become an international cause for concern. Four barrels of glacier-fed spring water are used to process each barrel of oil, then are dumped, laden with carcinogens, into leaky tailings ponds so huge they can be seen from space. Downstream, the people of Fort Chipewyan are already paying the price for what will be one of the largest industrial projects in history. When a local doctor raises the alarm about clusters of rare cancers, evidence mounts for industry and government cover-ups. In a time when wars are fought over oil and a crisis looms over access to clean fresh water, which resource is more precious? And what price are we willing to pay?" — Gisèle Gordon.

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