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   Yep - they're fighting a Netflix animation film. From their War Room.   
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   Bigfoot Family tells the story of an energy company’s nefarious scheme to   
   detonate a bomb in an Alaska valley to flood it with crude oil. Photograph:   
   Netflix   
      
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   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.   
      
   Created in 2019 by the governing United Conservatives party, Alberta’s   
   “energy war room” is tasked with combating negative portrayals of the   
   province’s energy sector as it comes under scrutiny for its high emissions   
   and environmental degradation.   
      
   The centre was initially given an annual operating budget of C$30m ($24m), but   
   a strain on the province’s finances during the coronavirus pandemic reduced   
   its budget to C$12m.   
      
   In addition to targeting cryptozoological children’s films, the centre has   
   taken issue with how journalists report on the province’s energy industry.   
   In recent months, the province embarked on a controversial set of hearings, at   
   a cost of C$3.5m, to    
   investigate allegations – so far-unfounded – that criticism of the energy   
   industry was spurred by “foreign-funded special interests”.   
      
   The centre’s criticism of Bigfoot Family centres on a plot to blow up a   
   valley in Alaska to release its oil. “It villainizes energy workers and   
   disparages the industry’s record on and commitment to environmental   
   protection,” said Tom Olsen, head    
   of the Canadian Energy Centre, in a statement emailed to media outlets.   
      
   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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   And Albertans wonder why they have a massive deficit problem in their province?   
      
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