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H2Oil lacks real impact

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The latest film about the Alberta tar sands, an area as big as England that supplies America with more oil than the Middle East, covers the same ground as the recent Dirty Oil and Petropolis.

It describes the desecration of the scarred landscape and, in particular, the carcinogenic pollution largely disregarded by the Canadian government whose profit, along with that of the petro companies, is immense. But it never distinguishes between its moving human stories and a general eco-activism, which does nothing much to sharpen their individual cases.

H2Oil
Cert: 12A

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