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Bloomberg: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vilified political opponents who support a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions. The oil-sands industry, Canada’s fastest growing CO2 polluter, says he’s out of step.
The contradiction of an industry seeking a new tax on itself has emerged in energy-rich Canada because producers are concerned the crude they process from tar-like sands will be barred from foreign markets for releasing more carbon in its production than competing fossil fuels.
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Why Canada’s Oil Sands Industry Wants the CO2 Tax That Harper Hates
Posted by Bloomberg: Jeremy van Loon and Andrew Mayeda on February 4th, 2013
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