Oil Sands or Tar Sands? A sticky subject

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Published on Monday, 24 March 2014 12:00

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Oil Sands or Tar Sands? A sticky subject - This Weeks Dose of Common Sense r33
When Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Tony Horwitz visited Fort MacMurray to research a new book, he noted, "It quickly became clear to me that saying ‘tar sands’ would tar me as a hostile environmentalist. So, I began to say ‘oil sands’." This week, we examine the PR wars over Alberta bitumen - a sticky subject that merits a rethink, given the water, climate and ecological implications behind the various names we give it.

Meanwhile, DC Reid sinks his shovel into the piles of waste coming out of open net pen salmon farms on BC's coast - a cost borne by the public and environment which he tags at a billion dollars a year.

Finally, BC isn't the only Canadian province getting into the liquefied natural gas game, as Nova Scotia recently approved a new LNG terminal on its coast.

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Damien Gillis
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The issue of what to call Alberta's oil patch is an increasingly sticky subject.



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