Pipeline protesters should change focus, says UBC prof

Environmentalists protesting the new pipelines appear to believe that by disrupting the transportation of oil sands crude they will somehow reduce the consumption of heavy crude oil. Unfortunately they are looking at the wrong end of the supply-demand equation, says UBC professor Robert Evans..

Another day another pipeline protest, or at least it seems that way. Canadian oil companies, having underestimated the impact of increasing U.S. domestic oil supplies, particularly from the prolific Bakken and Eagle Ford regions of North Dakota and Texas, are desperately seeking new markets for ...

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