photo: Danielle Scott via flickr. I hope I need not tell you that the development of the Canadian tar sands is an unmitigated environmental disaster . We’ve gone over that one at least a dozen times. But what we haven’t covered is the fact that the price tag

for developing this source of unconventional fossil fuels is so high that if it were spent elsew… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Tar Sands Are Misplaced Money - Same Amount Could Decarbonize Europe or Lift Nations Out of Poverty