«Singling out oil sands crude creates an artificial and potentially discriminatory regulatory distinction,» said the note from Mark Corey of Canada's natural resources department.
The need for the BOC to act was created by sliding inflation, weaker crude prices (which threaten domestic sandoil production), and lagging employment growth.
The process is so carbon intensive that to createoil from the tar sands emits at least five times more carbon dioxide then does the effort of processing «sweet crude» oil.