We really can live without tar sands, but don’t tell the oil patch

The most frightening spectre for the oil industry is a surging renewable energy industry united with environmentalists to destroy the myth of oil's necessity.

TORONTO—The scariest thing for the oil industry right now is not the front page pictures of dying, oil-covered birds in the Gulf of Mexico, or pictures of dead, oil covered ducks in the Alberta tar sands. The most frightening spectre for them is a surging renewable energy industry united wi...

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