Dr. Stephen Smith on Canada's Tar Sands ("Canada's dirty oil")

Dr. Stephen A. Smith writing in blog.cleanenergy.org.

"The environmental destruction aside, the use of tar sands by the U.S. government is technically against the law. Our organization [Southern Alliance for Clean Energy], along with the Sierra Club, filed suit in 2010 against the U.S. Department of Defense for violating Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 which prohibits federal use of fuels that have a higher greenhouse gas life cycle than conventional petroleum. This law hasn’t stopped Canada’s tar sands from becoming our largest single source of imported crude oil, and we [the U.S.] import approximately 2/3 of Canada’s nearly 1.5 million barrels/day."

Full article: CleanEnergy Footprints � Archive � Northern Exposure - shining a light on Canada's dirty tar sands oil.