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Of Pipelines and Tar Sands

Of Pipelines and Tar Sands

After some reflection, I can think of nothing good to say about the Alberta tar sands.  The best thing that most people say here is that Canada is not Saudi Arabia or Venezuela and therefore if the US is importing billions of barrels a year (4.28 in 2009), then we’re getting more (900 million) from […]

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More "Dirt" on the Tar Sands

More "Dirt" on the Tar Sands

Further to my last post below on the Alberta tar sands, here is a hopeful bit of news from Stacy Feldman at the excellent SolveClimate on a hard-hitting letter from Congress to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  50 members of the House, no doubt all with very high LCV ratings, warned the Secretary of the […]

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Just Say No

For Pete’s sake, even the last US President, a man not highly praised for his environmentalism, said America was addicted to fossil fuels.  If fossil fuels are an addiction, then Canadian tar sands oil are crack.  Put it another way, using the same metaphor:  the US causes the massive drug violence and corruption in Mexico […]

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