CBC Centre Stage: Is Alberta's oil dirty?

Wild Rose Country
CBC Edmonton
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Alberta's oilsands: Black gold or black eye? One in six Albertans are directly and indirectly employed in the energy sector, generating 30% of the province's revenues. But are the oilsands' social, health and environmental impacts giving it a bad name? Wild Rose explores the top five reasons Alberta's oilsands are considered dirty and asks if it's really black gold or just Alberta's black eye. More ... (Photo: Jeff McIntosh/CP)

"Is Alberta's oil dirty?" To answer that question, we're joined by Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Preston MacEachern, a scientist with Alberta Environment, and Jim Carter, past president of Syncrude.

Click here to download the discussion. (It's a 30 mb MP3 file. If it doesn't stream for you, it's a lengthy download.)

Wild Rose Country is a provincial program heard weekdays from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. on CBC Radio One (1010 AM in Calgary and 740 AM in Edmonton). Wild Rose Country connects urban and rural Albertans by exploring the environmental, agricultural, educational and political issues affecting everyone from the far north to the deep south of the province.

Wild Rose Dirty Oil series, here.

Nikiforuk's, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, here.