Our dangerous dependence on the tar sands

It sounds like good news. A new study, “Oil Sands Economic Benefits: Today and in the Future,” states that tar sands production supported more than 478,000 direct, indirect and
induced Canadian jobs in 2012 and
contributed $91-billion of Canada’s GDP, an economic contribution greater than that of the province of Saskatchewan. Government revenues in the form of tax receipts and royalties totaled