"White Water, Black Gold" - Esquimalt

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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

When hiking guide David Lavallee discovers that his province is ramping up growth in an extremely water- intensive industry downstream of his beloved icefields, he is surprised he knows so little about this industry. This necessitates a journey: from icefields�to oilfields.

Please join Sierra Victoria for a screening of �White Water Black Gold� - a powerful documentary chronicling the multifaceted devastating effects of the Alberta tar sands as director David Lavelle follows a �drop of water� from the Columbia ice fields through the Alberta oil fields. View the trailer.

The screening will be followed by an opportunity to meet the film-maker and a Q&A session with Sierra Club BC's dedicated campaign staff.

In the course of his journey David makes many discoveries: new science shows that water resources in an era of climate change will be increasingly scarce (putting this industry at risk); First Nations people living downstream are contracting bizarre cancers; the upgrading of this oil threatens multiple river systems across Canada and the tailings ponds containing the waste by-products of the process threaten to befoul the third largest watershed in the world. Additionally, a planned pipeline across British Columbia brings fresh threats to BC Rivers and the Pacific Ocean.

�White Water, Black Gold� is a sober look at the untold costs, to water and people, associated with developing the second largest deposit of �oil� in the world.