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Do you like tar? How about sandy tar?No? Then voice your opposition to the new tar sand pipeline
Recently the 100th proposed coal plant was stopped by a combination of grassroots organizing, rising costs, legal pressure, and proposed legislation. Increasingly organizers are turning their attention to another highly polluting source of energy: the Albertan Tar Sands. Because it is so difficult to to extract oil from tar sands, the process involves even more environmental degradation and greenhouse gas creation than typical fossil fuels. The Alberta Clipper pipeline, a major piece of the project to develop the tar sands, is up for approval by the U.S. State Department in just one week. Dirty Oil Sands is an initiative from a large number of prominent environmental organizations encouraging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not to approve this pipeline project. If you’d prefer America to meet its future energy needs from cleaner sources, you can learn more and add your name to the petition at Dirty Oil Sands. Image by David Dodge, Pembina Institute (www.oilsandswatch.org). Comments
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Lessening America's vulnerability to unfriendly foreign oil sources outweighs any CO2 emmissions problems with tar sands. If anything, Canada should build multiple nuclear power plants in Alberta to create lower CO2 methods of extracting the oil.
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I'd also point out that the exploitation of Canada's oil sands is a classic unintended consequence of several decades of offshore drilling bans in the US, combined with a paradoxically-insatiable appetite for oil that only the deepest recession in at least 2 decades could stall. The irony is that the environmental consequences (local and global) of producing more conventional oil from US waters would have been less than from the development of oil sands, which is driven by proximity to markets and greater access and certainty about property rights in Canada vs. other oil provinces such as Venezuela.
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I've always felt that, before the tar sands are developed, uses should be found for the "waste product" so that there will be minimal impact on the environment.
Could the waste product be used in road building/resurfacing?
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