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Lenz, Garth, "The True Cost of Oil"
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
This film follows a Christian community and its leader as they resist the oil and gas industry and its plans for expansion into their land.
Longley traces how geographic and cartographic knowledge of the Athabasca region, Alberta, Canada, colonized the region in the southern imagination long before the oil sands industry began extraction there. The practices of exploration, surveying, and documentation mapped the Athabasca region in terms of its rich bitumen deposits, obscuring the histories of Indigenous people. The south gained political and economic control of the region, although this process is incomplete and contested.