This is a guest post by Ben Parfitt, resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. It orginially appeared on policynote.ca.
Well, I won’t back down
No, I won’t back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won’t back down
— Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty
In the mid 1960s, the world’s two superpowers hit on a novel idea to try to coax more oil and natural gas from the ground. In what they hoped would prompt the release of “endless fountains of fossil fuels,” first the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and (Read more…)