Metro Cinema Society: Pipe Dreams

Pipe Dreams

USA 2011, 40 min, Digital, Dir: Leslie Iwerks

The Alberta Premier! A David and Goliath tale by Academy Award Winner Leslie Iwerks

Across the heartland of America, farmers and landowners are fighting to protect their land, their water, and their livelihood in what has become the most controversial environmental battle in the U.S. today: The Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline. Routed from Hardisty, Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, this tar sands pipeline is set to cross the country's largest freshwater resource, the Ogallala Aquifer, and the fragile Sandhills of Nebraska, posing devastating consequences to human health, livestock, and agriculture. This Sunday, as the Enbridge tarsands tanker/pipeline hearings are in Edmonton watch a film about ordinary people fighting some of the biggest oil companies on the planet. Film followed by short discussion.

Admission by donation.