Argument: Oil sands are too economically important to just abandon them

Support

“Canada’s energy industry. Tarred with the same brush.” The Economist. Aug 5th 2010: “Energy, including natural gas, conventional oil and coal, makes up a quarter of Alberta’s $211 billion economy. The rest of the country benefits from service and supply contracts with energy companies, and from the government’s redistribution of Alberta’s wealth to poorer provinces.”