{"id":12723,"date":"2012-10-27T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T17:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12723"},"modified":"2012-10-27T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T17:55:30","slug":"the-true-cost-of-oil-garth-lenz-tedxvictoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/10\/27\/the-true-cost-of-oil-garth-lenz-tedxvictoria\/","title":{"rendered":"The true cost of oil: Garth Lenz @ TEDxVictoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video was posted on YouTube with the following introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat does environmental devastation actually look like? At TEDxVictoria, photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos of the Alberta Tar Sands mining project &#8212; and the beautiful (and vital) ecosystems under threat.<\/p>\n<p>For almost twenty years, Garth&#8217;s photography of threatened wilderness regions, devastation, and the impacts on indigenous peoples, has appeared in the world&#8217;s leading publications. His recent images from the boreal region of Canada have helped lead to significant victories and large new protected areas in the Northwest Territories, Quebec, and Ontario. Garth&#8217;s major touring exhibit on the Tar Sands premiered on Los Angeles in 2011 and recently appeared in New York. Garth is a Fellow of the International League Of Conservation Photographers<\/p>\n<p>Filmed at TEDxVictoria on November 19 2011\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/84zIj_EdQdM?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Along with this video, you might want to look at the story and photo album <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/photos-destructive-canada-oil-sands-2012-10\" title=\"Photographs to enhance your understanding of the impact ot tar sands mining\" target=\"_blank\">These Pictures May Give You Nightmares About The Canada Oil Sands<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the above slide show, there is a link to the article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/a-tour-of-cenovus-energys-in-situ-christina-lake-facility-2012-5\" title=\"The other method of tar sands extraction\" target=\"_blank\">This is the hot new way they&#8217;re extracting more oil from the sands than anyone imagined<\/a><\/strong>.  This highlights the other method of tar  sands extraction mentioned in the video as less ugly, but more damaging.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I was looking at the opportunity of investing in Canadian tar sands projects.  The investment looked overpriced to me, so I did not invest.  I probably would have made a fortune, but now at least my conscience is clear.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to CindyM for sending the email that led to this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video was posted on YouTube with the following introduction: What does environmental devastation actually look like? At TEDxVictoria, photographer Garth Lenz shares shocking photos of the Alberta Tar Sands mining project &#8212; and the beautiful (and vital) ecosystems under threat. For almost twenty years, Garth&#8217;s photography of threatened wilderness regions, devastation, and the impacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12723"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12725,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12723\/revisions\/12725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}