Reply To: Proliferation?

[zapkitty]

Brian H wrote:

It would be an error to imply that Canada’s oil is any more deadly than Saudi oil, or Alaska’s oil, or Gulf of Mexico’s oil.

I support the notion of using nuclear energy, (even fission) to help extract oil from tar sands with less waste, and less harm to the environment.

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Are you implying an equivalence between tar sands extraction (and consequences) and salt dome extraction (and consequences)?

There are no tar sands in Canada. Only oil sands. The phrase is disinformational. Of course.

Sorry, Brian, but bitumen resembles tar and although the term is technically inaccurate bitumen-laced sands have been referred to as tar sands in common usage since the 19th century. The greens didn’t start it and blaming them for the current connotations of the term is actually just another form of political correctness.