[Ost-news] A licence to pollute dressed up in rhetorical petticoats

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A licence to pollute dressed up in rhetorical petticoats

JEFFREY SIMPSON  
>From Saturday's Globe and Mail  
January 26, 2008 at 12:00 AM EST

Canada's conventional oil supplies are running down. They are being replaced with oil from Alberta's tar sands.

Each barrel of tar-sands oil produces two to three times more greenhouse-gas emissions than a barrel of conventional oil. The result is obvious: Greenhouse-gas emissions from Alberta oil have been rising.

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