Late last week President Barack Obama deferred consideration of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, designed to ship Alberta petroleum to the Gulf Coast, until after next year’s U.S. elections. Obama’s move immediately sparked vows in Canada to redirect crude exports to Asian markets less angst-ridden by the environmental impacts associated with tapping Alberta’s tough, tarry petroleum. A smarter strategy would be to reduce those impacts, starting with the black mark that brought Keystone XL to national attention: oil sands crude’s bloated carbon footprint. Read the rest of this entry »
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How Canada Should Return Obama’s Oil Pipeline Punt
Posted by pfairley on November 14, 2011
Posted in Carbon taxes, Carbon trading, Energy politics, Fuels, Petroleum, Tarsands | Tagged: Alberta, Barack Obama, bitumen, Calgary, canada, carbon pricing, carbon tax, Cenovus, Climate Change, Keystone II, N-Solv, oil sands, petroleum, president obama, tar sands, TransCanada, water, water consumption | 1 Comment »
