Globe and Mail: Many Canadians must have wondered if George Orwell was alive and well this week as they read that the Alberta oil sands were being pitched to U.S. officials as "green" by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. "Canada is the environmentally responsible choice for the U.S. to meet its energy needs in oil for years to come," the minister told an audience in Chicago - a message he repeated over and over in his U.S. tour, part of a calculated mission to associate Alberta bitumen with ecological...
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