Defending the oil sands

National Post:

For more than two years, Canada’s oil sands have been attacked by environmentalists and left-leaning think-tanks. In particular, these critics accuse the project of producing more carbon emissions than any other energy-extraction effort on the face of the Earth, and of “ravaging” the northern Alberta landscape. In Copenhagen last December, at the largest climate change conference ever convened by the United Nations, Canada was branded as a “climate criminal.” In 2009, no less revered a journalistic outlet than National Geographic magazine published an attack on the oil sands.

The lesson from all this is that Alberta politicians and oil sands officials must do a better job defending the project — its worth to the national economy, its fine record of land reclamation and the manner by which it makes Canada self-sufficient.

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