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Ouf. Nice one.
(And it looks like Tar Sandys is your coinage.)
I appreciate your blog, but feel this is a tad irresponsible considering our country’s manufacturing core is crutched by Outdated Coal powered plants that produce roughly double the greenhouse emissions responsible for climate change. Where the Oilsands is an easy target for everyone in “Beautiful British Columbia”, the economic impact that it brings our country needs to be weighed before you can cross your arms and point to it as 100% wrong. Believe it or not, major technological strides are being made to produce this resource cleaner and reclaim the affected lands, which is more than can be said for Coal. I understand my opine isn’t popular but I’ve seen the prosperity that this industry has brought large parts of our country first hand and felt something should be said. I appreciate much of your writing and feel this is not up to the par you have set.
As someone who lives in BC I appreciate that the oilsands feed the core of this country’s manufacturing industry which is, as you say, ‘crutched’ by coal who ihas an equally poor environmental record. Also it is very true that the oilsands has made progress in terms of oil extraction, product refinement and land reclamation. If you accept that we in the west are addicted to oil, it seems to me that wringing our hands about the oilsands or coal is like talking about the drug and the needle (pipeline) while ignoring the addict. The public is far ahead of government already washing its hands of housing and autos, causing the collapse of the real-estate market and the bankruptcy of ‘gas guzzling’ GM. Until governments abandon fighting wars to protect the oil supply chain and lead in charting a path out of fuel poverty they will continue to be irrelevant deficit deepening machines. The reality of this is clear to anyone who looks to Canada today or the US of ten years ago.