Are Canada's Tar Sands in Peril?  Tue, 2009-01-13 19:38Mitchell
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At his confirmation hearing today, Dr. Steven Chu, the Nobel
laureate physicist and incoming head of the Energy Department,
warned of the dire consequences of unchecked global warming. In
her confirmation hearing, Senator Hillary Clinton said that
climate change is an "unambiguous security threat" and pledged
an energy policy to reduce our carbon emissions.   In contrast,
Harper’s own credibility on climate change is almost laughable:
Many suspect that Harper is now lobbying Obama for a continental
energy policy that would give a “pass” to Alberta tar sands.
Given the enormous expectations on Obama to bring in real and
green change, it is unlikely that he will want to be associated
with this tarry mess.  To say that the tar sands project has a
credibility pro