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Friday, May 08, 2009
Environment - "BP, environmentalists debate oil sand"
Gitte Laasby of the Gary Post Tribune reports today:
PORTAGE -- With BP Whiting's expansion, the fight over oil sands has begun.In one corner: The oil industry, including BP, and the government of Alberta, Canada, where much of the oil sand is mined.
In the other corner: Environmentalists, conservationists and renewable energy advocates.
On Thursday, industry threw a punch when Indiana Petroleum Council Executive Director Maggie McShane spoke at the Northwest Indiana Regional Plan Commission's environmental management and policy committee.
"We have a growing demand for energy. Canadian oil is a reliable and plentiful strategic resource and it makes the United States more energy secure," she said. * * *
Environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, fight the use of oil sands, saying it requires removal of boreal forests in Canada and large amounts of energy to extract. They say it contains more contaminants than conventional oil and causes more greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 8, 2009 09:41 AM
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