Academy Award and Emmy-nominated Director Leslie Iwerks to Direct Short Documentary on Keystone XL Pipeline
A Short Documentary to Explore the Environmental, Social and Political Impacts of the proposed Keystone XL Oil Pipeline.
- (1888PressRelease) July 08, 2011 - Los Angeles - Award-winning production company, Leslie Iwerks Productions is producing a 40-minute documentary that will explore the social, political and environmental impacts of the $7 billion construction of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline by Canadian energy corporation TransCanada. This controversial pipeline is set to carry up to 1.1 million barrels of heavy crude oil per day from the Alberta Tar Sands through the middle of the United States down to the Gulf Coast. Academy Award® and Emmy® -nominated filmmaker Leslie Iwerks is directing. Award-winning producer Jane Kosek is producing.
This film will uncover the realities behind building this 1,980-mile pipeline through the heartland of America. Through interviews with landowners, politicians, scientists and engineers, environmental groups, and activists and more, it will discuss the increasing ramifications of America's reliance on Canada's tar sands, as well as the sacrifices on people, wildlife and the environment in the long term. On the opposite side, it will examine Keystone's proposed job creations and land reclamation, projected revenue for landowners and taxpayers, carbon capture and storage developments, and pipeline safety history in America. In addition, the film will take a look at the existing Keystone I Pipeline, its ongoing leaks, and the landowners whose land it has impacted.
At a time when the country needs job creation and seemingly unlimited oil, we will hear from proponents and advocates who feel it is a good thing for America vs. those who feel we are facing environmental catastrophe in the long term. Many accounts state this pipeline is just the bridge for TransCanada to ship oil overseas to an oil hungry China and other countries at the expense of the U.S. heartland.
This documentary will also present developments as they have been unfolding in the United States leading up to the decision on a presidential permit to allow TransCanada to complete this pipeline. An affirmative decision on this pipeline will affect the land, economy, people, and the world, for decades to come.
Leslie Iwerks' previous films Dirty Oil and Downstream (shortlisted for an Academy Award® in 2009) have covered the environmental and social consequences of oil production from the tar sands regions in Alberta, Canada. (visit: www.babelgum.com/dirtyoil and www.downstreamdoc.com)
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