The US wanted to nuke Alberta & Canada said yes
With the birth of the oil industry in western Canada came an American dream to blow it all up. Part 1 of 3. Watch Part 2 here: • Trudeau’s biggest failure divided Alb... Watch Part 3 here: • Alberta's oil sands are growing & it'... Patreon: / landandlore Twitter: / landandlorevids Sources: Developing Alberta’s Oil Sands: From Karl Clark to Kyoto, Paul Chastko (2004) Stupid to the last drop: how Alberta is bringing environmental Armageddon to Canada (and doesn't seem to care), William Marsden (2008) The K. A. Clark Volume, Research Council of Alberta (1963) Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant (2023) Basic Properties: Oil Sands, Bitumen and Heavy Oil, Oil Sands Magazine (2022) Alberta Culture and Tourism - Oil Sands (Accessed 2024) Alberta’s Petroleum Industry and the Conservation Board, David H. Breen (1993) Imagining the Tar Sands 1880-1967 and Beyond, M. Gismondi and D. J. Davidson (2012) Recovering Oil from Shale with Nuclear Explosives, D. B. Lombard (1965) The Soviet Program for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions, M. D. Nordyke (1996) The Canadian Encyclopedia - Bomarc Missile Crisis (2021) Fractional Distillation, Enserva (Accessed 2024) Manley Natland’s Memorial, M. L. Hill Whittier and C. W. Hoskins Brea (1991) Canadian History: Post-Confederation, J. D. Belshaw (2016) U.S. Crude Oil First Purchase Price dataset, U.S. Energy Information Administration (Accessed 2024) Music from the Youtube Audio Library in order of appearance: Knowpe - Noir Et Blanc Vie MydNyte - Noir Et Blanc Vie Cowboy Lullaby - JHS Pedals Dude, Where's My Horse - Nat Keefe with The Bow Ties Absolutely Nothing - Jeremy Blake The Beacon - Zachariah Hickman Badlands - ELPHNT Tumbleweed Texas - Chris Haugen Who's Using Who - The Mini Vandals Birdseye Blues - Chris Haugen To Weather a Storm - Dan Lebowitz Lucid Haze - Amulets Anxious - Sextile TrueArtRealAffectionPart4 - Noir Et Blanc Vie Skying - Public Memory Final Girl - Jeremy Blake Boards - Francis Preve Seductress - Francis Preve Traversing - Godmode To Pass Time - Godmode 2020 - Dyalla Subterranean Howl - ELPHNT Asleep with the Sun - Unicorn Heads Ether Oar - The Whole Other Smokey Eye - Cheel Milky Way - Ramzoid Assets: Fat Man by ArtEast. is licensed under CC. Available at https://skfb.ly/oNOJ6 Oil Pump Jack by Machine Meza is licensed under CC. Available at https://skfb.ly/6UCnI Grandfather Clock by Lyskilde is licensed under CC. Available at https://skfb.ly/6XN6V Molecular models imported using the CGFigures Asset Library, licensed under CC. Available at https://www.cgfigures.ca/assetlibrary 00:00 A-bombs and Alberta 06:48 Senators and Oilers 20:49 Stuck in the mud 39:28 Swords and plowshares 48:04 Poison in the well