B-roll tar sands, with Steven Guilbeault speaking about the environmental consequences of the tar sands.

Buried below the Boreal Forest of northern Alberta is a source of oil known as the tar sands. Deposits of tar sands are spread out over 138 000 km2 of land (an area the size of Florida) and including 4.3 million hectares of the Boreal Forest. Clips include Suncor tars sands development, Syncrude tar sands development, interviews on tar sands development with industry representatives and environmentalists.