With wild price swings at the gas pumps, the U.S.’s dependency on Middle Eastern oil has become a hot topic.   Channel 2 Action News went looking for answers about what’s really behind the unstable gas prices and got rare access to the Canadian oil sands.

 In an hour long special, Channel 2 anchors Jovita Moore and Justin Farmer gave viewers an in-depth look at the debate over where Georgia’s oil comes from.

 Channel 2 cameras took viewers where few have ever been: the oil tar sands in Alberta, Canada.  Canada mines more than a million barrels of oil each day, but none of that oil makes it to Georgia.  Several companies mine it and all want to get it deep into the U.S. market including Georgia.  The problem: Atlanta gets most of its gas from Gulf coast refineries and there aren’t enough pipelines to get Canadian oil to those refineries

 We go inside two different mining operations to give viewers a look at the process, local jobs tied to the oil sands and environmental advances being made north of the border and here in Georgia. For stories, videos and photos from the special click on related content.

About Channel 2 WSB-TV

The ABC Affiliate is part of Cox Media Group and ranks as Atlanta’s number one local television station. The station also operates its website, wsbtv.com, its mobile site, wap.wsbtv.com, and airs MeTV on its digital channel 2.2.

About Cox Media Group
Cox Media Group  is an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media company that includes the national advertising rep firms of Cox Reps. Additionally, CMG owns and operates Valpak, one of North America’s leading direct marketing companies.   With $1.7 billion in revenue, the company operations include 15 broadcast television stations and one local cable channel, 86 radio stations, eight daily newspapers and more than a dozen non-daily publications, and more than 100 digital services.   CMG operates in more than 30 media markets and reaches approximately 52 million Americans weekly, including 30 million TV viewers, more than 4 million print and online newspaper readers, and 18 million radio listeners.  For more information about Cox Media Group, please check us out online at www.coxmediagroup.com.