Finlay Minerals reports 2024 field results from PIL property in British Columbia
The PIL property is in the heart of the Toodoggone mining district of British Columbia.
Nearly six months after massive wildfires close to Canada’s oil sands forced one of the largest evacuations in the country’s history, affecting production, Leonardo DiCaprio’s new climate-change documentary threatens to bring unwanted, negative attention to the industry.
Critics are already referring to the scenes shown in the film, particularly an aerial of the oil sands, as “terrifying”.
Fisher Stevens, director of Before The Flood, which has been in the works since 2014, recently told Canadian Press he was “really horrified” by how the landscape looked in north-eastern Alberta.
“It does employ a lot of people,” Stevens acknowledged. “Look, we all want work, we all need jobs — God knows. And it would be great if it was like: ‘Now, we take all of these people and we replant all of that forest.’ Wouldn’t that be amazing?,” he said.
Last year, the Church of England threatened to dump about £3m ($3.7 million) in oil shares after the release of Virunga, DiCaprio’s documentary that shows alleged SOCO International representatives taking bribes to rangers to access the park of the same name.
In Before The Flood, to be screened this weekend in 171 countries, in 45 languages, DiCaprio (in a producer role) travels to several continents and the Arctic, meeting with political and religious leaders, scientists and activists.
The Oscar-winning actor, a leading figure in Hollywood’s environmental movement, has said he doesn’t want to point fingers at anyone, but some movie critics are already referring to the scenes shown in the film, particularly an aerial of the oil sands, as “terrifying”.
“My hope is that this film provides a global wakeup call about our inevitable fate should we fail to act,” Stevens said in a statement.
Here’s’ a preview:
4 Comments
Matt
Simple Leanardo do Simpleton can donate his millions to employing people to sell organic bamboo bicycles and “homespun” cotton candy. What type of huge auto does he drive anyway?
Roger Glover
So the clueless Actor and Director both know nothing about reclamation? Surgery looks pretty horrible until the end of the process when things are repaired and healed up. Idiots. I’m boycotting this loser.
Kenneth Viney
Reforestasion is not the answer. I would like to fly his terrified ass over the 3,000 miles of pristine Arctic wilderness so he gets some perspective. Ignorance has no limits
Ah Jaysus
DiCraprio is a hypocrite. He has a massive carbon footprint with his enormous yachts, private jets and multiple mansions. The same clown thought that a chinook wind was evidence of global warming recently. Best to ignore this fool. Wonder who’s financing him to spout his absolute nonsense. And why doesn’t he protest the much dirtier oil fields (and the massive recent methane leak) closer to home in California? Because he’s paid by US corporations to bad mouth the Canadian oil industry.