Canada: There is a way to clean up ‘dirty’ oil’s problems

Globe and Mail: Canada's bitumen resources have a problem, and neither the companies that wish to exploit bitumen or the governments trying to help them seem to understand it. Bitumen, from which oil is produced, takes more energy per barrel to get at than conventional oil pumped from the ground. Because it needs more energy, bitumen-derived oil produces more greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming than conventional oil. That gap -- between bitumen-derived and conventional oil -- is the problem......

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