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Canada needs leadership on $200-billion tar sands mega-project, says Nikiforuk

Author and journalist Andrew Nikiforuk says Canada is a country adrift. It has no energy plan, no water plan and is 'this Third World energy supermarket for the United States.'

Andrew Nikiforuk, author of the newly-released Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, says Canadians don't understand the "dire environmental, social and political costs" of the $200-billion tar sands in Alberta because there has been an appalling lack of federal and provincia...

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