Ryan Katz-Rosene is a graduate student at Carleton University's Institute of Political Economy studying the environmental political economy of Alberta's tar sands. He blogs about the many perils of neoliberalism at theorganicintellectual.blogspot.com.
Despite parliamentary debate on the oil sands elsewhere, Alberta sticks to its crude 'magic number' approach
Finally, a long-awaited parliamentary debate has taken place, and a vote has been held on whether or not oil development in the Alberta tar sands is worth its large environmental footprint— in Norway. That's right, the Norwegian parliament had the debate, not our Canadian parliament (nor our Alberta legislature, for that matter).
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