(photo credit: Suncor Energy)

Here are some of the articles, websites and documentaries I’ll be digging into ahead of the trip:

The Canadian Oil Sands: Economic savior or environmental disaster? | UW Bevan Series | David Schindler (Click here for a video of the talk.)

Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math | Rolling Stone | Bill McKibben

The Canadian Oil Boom | National Geographic | Robert Kunzig (text) & Peter Essick (photography)

Cry Wolf | DeSmogBlog | Carol Linnitt

Game Over for the Climate | The New York Times | James Hansen

Secrets to Norway’s Petro-Wealth: Lessons for Canada? | The Tyee | Mitchell Anderson

Athabasca Oil Sands | Wikipedia

Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands | CBC | Produced by Niobe Thompson and Tom Radford & hosted by Dr. David Suzuki

Ethical Oil | Ezra Levant

The Canadian Association of Oil Producers

If you have any ideas for what else I should I be reading, watching and doing to get ready, please leave me a comment.