Collateral damage of Oil Sands development

- Letter to the Editor, Edmonton Sun, November 27, 2011. Heather Plaizier is a participant in the :Bearing Witness to the Oil Sands Project.


"IV. Nations become what they produce. Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers. Inadequate environmental rules and monitoring have allowed unsustainable mining to accelerate. Feeble fiscal regimes have enriched multinationals and given Canada a petrodollar that hides the inflationary pressures of peak oil. Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower'. In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket."
        - "Declaration of a Political Emergency" in Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent 
                                            by Andrew Nikiforuk