Earlier this week I wrote about a new report by WWF - UK that said that economic and environmental cost of
developing unconventional sources of oil such as the Tar Sands in Canada and Oil Shale in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S.
Not exact matches
§ 15927 («[I] t is the policy of the United States that... United States oil shale, tar sands, and other
unconventional fuels are strategically important domestic resources that should be
developed to reduce the growing dependence of the United States on politically and economically unstable
sources of foreign oil imports -LSB-.]»)
No, he seems to mean that if we allow the Keystone XL to set a precedent — that we aim aim to
develop dirtier, more expensive,
unconventional fossil fuels instead of renewable
sources — then it will be game over for the climate system as we know it.