There are many
organizations in the United States, Canada and Europe engaged in the
campaign to mitigate the damage and stop the expansion of the tar
sands. Corporate Ethics is one of them. While their individual
organizational goals may vary, most of these organizations hope to
accelerate the transition to clean and sustainable energy economy by
slowing the expansion of the tar sands.
Why Alberta’s Tar
Sands?
The escalating
production and consumption of tar sands oil, along with the threat of
dozens of new coal-fired power plants, pose the greatest threats to a
clean energy future for North America. Tar sands oil and coal
constitute the dirtiest, most carbon intensive forms of fossil fuel,
yet the federal governments of Canada and US continue to promote them
and carbon capture and sequestration as the solution to US “energy
security.” Public policy that would bring emissions under control,
increase fuel efficiency, and promote development of clean energy
technology continues to occupy the second tier of public policy
priorities. We are at a critical crossroad for global warming: unless
civil society effectively blocks the road to an even dirtier fossil
fuel future, we will not achieve the carbon reductions necessary to
stave off global environmental catastrophe.
to help stop the dirtiest oil on earth