Vice Broadcasting System Television (vbs.tv) made a visit to Alberta’s oil sands to take a look at the environmental impact of oil exploration in the province’s north.
The online station is the brainchild of Vice Magazine co-founders Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti and Shane Smith. The New York Times tells the story of how this new online tv station came to be, and the video about “Toxic Alberta” speaks for itself.
I like the concept and the way the stories are put together. It’s a good mix of first person experience and point-of-view reporting that takes on a subject that I haven’t seen covered by any Canadian broadcast media organization in this way. It’s also pretty amusing to watch a Williamsburg hipster freeze his ass off in Northern Alberta.
