Documentary: Dirty Oil - Screening Introduced by Neve Campbell

Venue: City Screen Picturehouse, York

Time: 6.30pm until 8.30pm

Credits: Director, Leslie Iwerks

Paul Monaghan, Head of Ethics and Sustainable Development, The Co-operative (Chair)
Leslie Iwerks, Director, DIRTY OIL (previous Academy Award winner)
George Poitras, Mikisew Cree indigenous First Nation (Chief from June 1999 to June 2002)
Colin Butfield, Head of Campaigns, World Wildlife Fund-UK

In addition the screening will be introduced by Neve Campbell
Building on the current appetite for environmental films examining issues around natural resources and pollution, Dirty Oil takes us deep behind the scenes into the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada.  Here the vast and toxic Tar Sands deposit supplies the US with the majority of its oil.  Through the eyes of scientists, 'big oil' officials, politicians, doctors, environmentalists and aboriginal citizens directly affected by 'the largest industrial project on the planet today', the filmmakers journey to both sides of the border to see the irreversible toll this 'black gold rush', fuelled by America's addiction to oil, is taking on our planet.