Right-Wing Canadian Politicians Screaming About Animated "Bigfoot Family" As Anti-Oil "Brainwashing"
The animated film Bigfoot Family has come under fire in Canada – but not because of its stilted dialogue or confusing plot. Instead, a government-funded lobbying group has targeted the movie – a fantasy epic featuring a human family whose father is Bigfoot – on the grounds that it “peddles lies” about the oil and gas industry.
The Netflix film, panned by critics, centres on an energy company’s nefarious scheme to detonate a bomb in a pristine Alaska valley to flood it with crude oil. Although the film is set in the US, the Canadian Energy Centre, funded by the province of Alberta, has launched a campaign against the movie, which it says “brainwashes” children with “anti-oil and gas propaganda”.
“Our children are the key to the future – but they can’t succeed if they’re filled with misinformation,” the centre said, claiming that more than 1,000 people have already emailed Netflix over the film. The streaming giant did not return a request for comment.
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But historians pointed out that – despite appearing in a film about a mythical creature – the bomb storyline wasn’t too far removed from reality. In the 1950s, the government of Alberta approved a project to detonate a 9-kiloton nuclear device near the town of Fort McMurray as a way of releasing oil from subterranean bitumen. Originally dubbed “Project Cauldron” and then rebranded less ominously as “Project Oilsand”, the plan was cancelled in 1962 when the federal government joined a ban on nuclear testing.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/canada-lobby-group-bigfoot-family-oil-and-gas
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