Do Canadas oil sands deserve ‘Worlds Dirtiest Commodity label?
Development and mining of a vital resource – Canada’s huge Alberta oil sands – has given rise to both environmental and climate change accusations. Is this justified? Author: *Lorimer Wilson Posted: Tuesday , 05 Jan 2010 TORONTO (FinancialSummariesToday.com) – “When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind: the world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. FROM DUDLEY DO-RIGHT TO CORRUPT PETRO-STATE? So amazingly destructive has Canada become … I am watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The pr
