Stephen Harper will not be pleased. The Carnegie Endowment is fingering his cherished Tar Sands. Not all oil is created equal. Sweet crude, of the Saudi sort, comes out of the ground almost ready to use. It’s pumped out of the ground easily, free of most contaminants (sulphur, water, sand,
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A. Picazo: Chevron – Because BP Wasn’t Drilling Deep Enough
Fifty miles off the coast of Louisiana, upwards of 100,000 barrels per day of oil are gushing from BP’s Deepwater Horizon well into the Gulf of Mexico. With the equivalent of one Exxon-Valdez seeping into the Gulf every three days, mass devastation of the wetlands, wildlife, and marshes surrounding the
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