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Alberta Canada Tar Sands
This video essay examines the contentious nature of oil and gas pipelines, including Keystone XL and Dakota Access. It highlights how new pipeline construction risks locking us into decades of fossil fuel reliance.
Support future videos via Patreon, Twitter, and Facebook. Further resources cover pipeline safety, the Keystone XL timeline, renewable energy goals, and a Keystone XL explanation.
ExxonMobil is conducting cleanup operations following a significant oil spill in central Arkansas. A ruptured 20-inch "Pegasus" tar sands pipeline released thousands of barrels of crude oil from Canada near Mayflower, forcing nearly two dozen home evacuations.
The Environmental Protection Agency has classified this incident as a "major spill." For more details, visit Democracy Now.
The world's largest industrial energy project is causing extensive environmental devastation in Alberta, Canada. This operation extracts crude oil from bitumen beneath the pristine boreal forest, impacting land, water, and air across an area equivalent to Florida or England.
Both industry and government prioritize financial gain over public health and environmental security. This critical assessment was originally uploaded on April 27, 2011.
At the Rights of Mother Earth International Indigenous Conference, Canadian activist Clayton Thomas-Muller delivered a speech addressing the devastating impact of Tar Sands on his people, describing it as a "science fiction nightmare."
A member of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawagan) in Northern Manitoba, Thomas-Muller is a prominent advocate for indigenous self-determination and environmental justice.
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The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection
The inside story of the AI breakthrough that won a Nobel Prize.
The Thinking Game takes you on a journey into the heart of leading AI lab DeepMind, capturing a team striving to unravel the mysteries of intelligence and life itself.
Filmed over five years by the award-winning team behind AlphaGo, the documentary examines how DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis’s extraordinary beginnings shaped his lifelong pursuit of artificial general intelligence. It chronicles the rigorous process of scientific discovery, documenting how the team moved from mastering complex strategy games to solving the 50-year-old "protein folding problem" with AlphaFold - a breakthrough that would win a Nobel Prize.
Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival and a successful international tour, the film is now available here to watch for free.
Interested in hosting a screening of The Thinking Game for your classroom, community, or workplace? Visit: https://rocofilms.com/films/the-thinking-game/
Director Greg Kohs
Producer Gary Krieg
Executive Producers Tom Dore, Jonathan Fildes
Co-Producer Greg Kohs
Editor Steve Sander
Cinematographer Greg Kohs
Composer Dan Deacon
