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CANADIAN EMISSIONS JUMP ON TAR SANDS REFINING

Mining of Canada's tar sands for the extraction of crude oil generates
three times as many greenhouse gas emissions than from mining conventional
crude oil in the country, according to report released Wednesday.
http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/1.932163
This chilling story backs up the point I have been making in this blog for a
long time now: unless we find a political way of stopping the phenomenon,
then we are going to see Peak Oil's impact softened by moves that will
rapidly escalate the climate crisis.
In a nutshell: Peak Oil + Business as Usual = Climate Catastrophe

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