Some seeds fall to the muddy bottom and germinate later in the year.

You know? But here in this clay hot plate, it will never go into your stomach.

The big news in energy these days is the revolution in technology for tapping shale gas.

But it goes a mile and a half in a straight line, due east into the range, into very interesting territory except that, as you'll see when we go inside in a minute, we were hoping for limestone but in there is just shale.

These are the Athabasca tar sands, and there's an enormous amount first of mining, the largest trucks in the world are working here, and then you've got to pull out this black sludge, which is basically oil that doesn't flow. It's tied to the sand. And then you've got to use a lot of steam to separate it, which only works at today's oil prices.