Alberta Government gives cash to anti-oilsands documentary

The province's Culture Minister admits the makers of the movie Dirty Oil, which will make it's Calgary debut later this month, were given a grant worth almost $55,000.

Lindsay Blackett tells 660News the decision to approve the subsidy is now a little difficult to swallow.

Blackett says the movie did meet the necessary criteria to receive the money through the province's Multimedia Production Fund, with the production pumping $300,000 into the economy.

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The Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada, John Bennett, tells 660News it's concerning a documentary film producer can fool the government and wonders what oil companies can do when reporting their pollution.