Interior shot of laboratory showing chemist with beaker of oil and sand to illustrate floatation method of separating oil from sand.

Smoking chimneys at an industrial plant at sunset. This is the tar sands upgrader plant at the Syncrude plant in Alberta, Canada. The tar sands are the largest deposits of bitumen in the world, and the extraction and processing into synthetic crude forms the largest industrial project on the planet. It has attracted criticism for its environmental impact. The oil produced is three times more carbon intensive than oil from conventional supplies. The area has also seen a very fast rate of deforestation, and polluted water from the plant has leached out into the Athabasca River.

Oil being extracted from oil sand at Fort McMurray plant in Alberta, Canada

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05/29/74 C0046694 - COLOR NEW YORK: THE OILMEN GATHERED T WATCH A DEMONSTRATION OF A NEW WAY TO GET CRUDE OIL OUT OF THE SANDS THAT LIE ACROSS NORTHERN ALBERTA CANADA. FCS "OIL SANDS" SHOWS: OILMEN AUDIENCE: DEMONSTRATION: SOF DR GLOBUS: RAMSEY CLOSE: (SHOT 5/29/74 52FT) GLOBUS, (DR) ALFRED - SOF OIL & GAS (SS) TAR SAND HELMUTH / 52 FT / 16 ORIG / COLOR / A&C / D39351 350 FT / 16 ORIG / COLOR / CUTS /

Aerial sun flare view of industrial surface mining of bitumen Athabasca tar sands an extremely heavy crude oil Fort McMurray Alberta Canada RED WEAPON

Scenes of workers creating synthetic crude oil and an aerial view of the Fort McMurray oil sands plant in Alberta accompany a report about the Suncor company losing profits as world oil prices fall. PLEASE NOTE News anchor and reporter image and audio, along with any commercial production excerpts, are for reference purposes only and are not clearable and cannot be used within your project.

Titles read: "CANADA'S NEW OIL RESERVES" (Dublin issue). <br/> <br/>Alberta, Canada. <br/> <br/>Various shots in a sand quarry of oil-bearing sand. A man rubs his hand over sandy rocks and shows his oil-covered hand to us. Dynamite charges are laid in a rock in the quarry and an explosion loosens the sand which is carried off to the refinery in a truck. <br/> <br/>At the refinery we see the complicated processes in involved in extracting the oil. The oil is used for aviation fuel and a lubricating spirit, while the residue is used for asphalt and the sand for glass blowing.

05/29/74 C0046694 - COLOR NEW YORK: THE OILMEN GATHERED TO WATCH A DEMONSTRATION OF A NEW WAY TO GET CRUDE OIL OUT OF THE SANDS THAT LIE ACROSS NORTHERN ALBERTA CANADA. FCS "OIL SANDS" SHOWS: OILMEN AUDIENCE: DEMONSTRATION: SOF DR GLOBUS: RAMSEY CLOSE: (SHOT 5/29/74 52FT) GLOBUS, (DR) ALFRED - SOF OIL & GAS (SS) TAR SAND HELMUTH / 52 FT / 16 ORIG / COLOR / A&C / D39351 350 FT / 16 ORIG / COLOR / CUTS /

--SUPERS--&#10;:00-:07&#10;Friday&#10;Edmonton, Alberta&#10;&#10;00 - :08&#10;Paul Vercammen&#10;CNN&#10;&#10;09 - 20&#10;Fort McMurray, Alberta&#10;&#10;28 - 37&#10;Fort McMurray, Alberta&#10;&#10;43 - 1:00&#10;MOS (no font)&#10;&#10;1:10 - 1:27&#10;Fort McMurray, Alberta&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10; --LEAD IN--&#10;A CONVOY OF 15-HUNDRED VEHICLES CARRYING EVACUEES BEGAN ROLLING RIGHT THROUGH FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA EARLY THIS MORNING (FRIDAY) UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF CANADIAN AUTHORITIES.&#10;THE MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE STRANDED IN COMMUNITIES JUST NORTH OF THE FIRE...AND ARE NOW HEADING SOUTH TO SAFETY.&#10;PAUL VERCAMMEN HAS MORE ON THESE MASSIVE FIRES.&#10; --REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS--&#10;(Paul Vercammen/CNN) "Many of the evacuees from the fire wind up here at the Expo center in Edmonton. And what did they flee? &#10;They say some fifty fires in all, seven of them still out of control. 1100 firefighters on the line. 22 tankers in the air. Hundreds of helicopters and bulldozers as they battle these blazes. &#10;Now the people who fled this fire telling harolding stories. Some of them shooting the blaze on their dash cameras inside their trucks or their cars. And inside these center people showed up, some of them holding just a plastic bag full of clothes and perhaps a key document.&#10;A passport or a driver"s license and that is about it. But again their stories just frightening."&#10;(MOS) "It was something like armageddon. Everything was burnt. It was just gone. You know, even leaving the city, it was like a scene out of a movie. It reminded of walking dead, the tv show Walking Dead, where you"re going down the highway and it"s just abandoned vehicles everywhere."&#10;(Paul Vercammen/CNN) "Canadian authorities working hard on clearing the roads, here in Alberta. And a big convoy, some 1500 vehicles expected to be freed up when so many was trapped near Fort McMurray. That is the city that was ravaged. It is the center of Canada"s oil sands industry. When that convoy releases these vehicles expect even more evacuees to flood into the center. And of course on the fire front, they"re hoping for a break in the weather. It"s a little cooler today. But it"s still very dry and very windy as they battle so many blazes in Alberta.&#10;Reporting from Edmonton, I"m Paul Vercammen, now back to you."&#10; --TAG--&#10;ALBERTA"S PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT SAYS THERE ARE CURRENTLY 40 WILDFIRES BURNING.&#10;THEY HAVE BURNED AT LEAST 320 SQUARE MILES AND DESTROYED MORE THAN 16-HUNDRED STRUCTURES.&#10;AT LEAST 88-THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FORCED TO FLEE THE FLAMES.&#10; -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----&#10;&#10; --KEYWORD TAGS--&#10;CANADA ALBERTA FORT MCMURRAY FLAMES DEVASTATION&#10;&#10;

Aerial view of Open pit bench mining Athabasca oil sands tailings pond a reservoir mixture of dissolved chemicals Fort McMurray Alberta Canada RED WEAPON

In Alberta, actress Jane Fonda meets with First Nations activist Cleo Desjarlais Reece to speak out against the development of oilsands. PLEASE NOTE News anchor and reporter image and audio, along with any commercial production excerpts, are for reference purposes only and are not clearable and cannot be used within your project.

Silhouetted tar sands upgrader plant at the Syncrude mine, north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, at sunset. The tar sands are the largest industrial project on the planet, and the world's most environmentally destructive. The synthetic oil produced from them is three times more carbon intensive than conventional oil supplies, a disaster for the climate. They are responsible for the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet, second only to the Amazon Rainforest. They produce millions of litres of highly polluted water every day which leaches out into the Athabasca river and has serious health impacts on First Nation peoples living downstream.

AERIAL SHOTs over vast stretches of tar sands lining both sides of Athabasca River. Shot of visiting oil men walking towards Bitumount Processing plant. CU of foot squeezing oil in sand. Shot of trapped bird being removed from tar sand. Shots of oil engineers inspecting area. Shot of audience watching 16mm movie in small screening room. Night shot of oil truck moving through residential district of Edmonton. Shot of several oil men on barge moving down Athabasca River. AERIAL SHOTs over prairie showing wheat fields and oil pumps. CU of Dr Convey of Mines and Technical Survey Department squeezing tar sand. HAS of tar sands pit. AERIAL SHOT over prairie and town of Devon, Alberta where oil workers live. AERIAL SHOTs over Edmonton. Night shots of oil derrick in operation, two farmers chatting, well gushing fire in background. Shot of wild well gushing skyward. Shots of Dr Blair of University of Manitoba, Dr Clarke of University of Alberta, Dr Bredwold, president of Sicony Oil Limited chatting and discussing.

Man sampling oil sand along North Saskatchewan River near Edmonton in Alberta, Canada

CANADIAN OIL PIPELINE PROPOSAL / WHITE HOUSE PROTEST / FTG OF PROTESTORS SITTING OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE HOLDING SIGNS AND DEMONSTRATING / FTG OF POLICE ARRESTING PROTESTORS (Reuters) - Thousands of opponents of a $7 billion pipeline that would boost U.S. dependence on Canadian oil sands plan to get arrested in protests over the next two weeks that they hope will help persuade the Obama administration to kill the project. The State Department is set to issue a final environmental impact report this month on the Keystone XL pipeline project that would bring oil sands petroleum from Alberta to Texas refineries. The department hopes to make a final decision on the TransCanada Corp line by the end of the year. Beginning on Saturday, protesters from all of the country's 50 states plan to linger in an area outside the White House where they are likely to be arrested, organizers say. They plan to conduct the civil disobedience citing what they see as the pipe's risks to the environment in waves of 100 people a day.

Oil sand being processed at Fort McMurray plant in Alberta, Canada

Scenes of executives and shareholders with Suncor meeting at the York Royal Hotel and an aerial view of the Fort McMurray oil sands plant in Alberta accompany a report about the company losing profits as world oil prices fall. PLEASE NOTE News anchor and reporter image and audio, along with any commercial production excerpts, are for reference purposes only and are not clearable and cannot be used within your project.

Aerial view of mining in the Athabasca tar sands region which consist of a surface tailings pond of dissolved chemicals Fort McMurray Alberta Canada RED WEAPON

MLS PANs from Athabasca River to expanse of tar sands stretching from bank of river.