Alberta’s oil sands ‘ethical alternative’ to ‘conflict oil’ from Middle East

Conflict oil is produced in regimes where women are oppressed, minorities persecuted, workers exploited, and democrats and dissidents who dare complain are jailed, tortured, or even murdered.

Every Canadian government in the last two decades has been a champion of Canada's oil sands. It was the federal Liberals who, in government, first saw the commercial promise of the immense bitumen deposit—their regulatory and political support was critical in transforming the oil sands indu...

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