The age of extreme oil: ‘This used to be a forest?'

Click here to access article by Arno Kopecky from The Globe and Mail (Canada).

One grey Thursday at the end of April, a plane touched down in Fort McMurray, Alta., carrying four Achuar Indians from the Peruvian Amazon. They had flown 8,000 kilometres from the rain forest to beseech Talisman Energy Inc., the Calgary-based oil and gas conglomerate, to stop drilling in their territory.

...But first, they wanted to see a Canadian oil patch for themselves, and meet the aboriginal people who lived there.