Sierra Club is concerned - the Obama Whitehouse has given the Clinton State Department permission to allow import of "dirty" oil from shale deposits in Canada.
Well, I don't know if the Sierra Club folks have actually gone up there to see what's going on, but here's an Oil Drum blogger who did.
I asked the Sierra Clubber who emailed the press release whether it wouldn't be better to pump our own domestic sources of oil rather than get it from Canada - something Sierra Club and others are also pushing against. Also wondering if it wouldn't be greener too, considering our own EPA would have oversight over the whole process. Haven't heard back from her.
We're going to need some sort of petroleum resources for the next couple decades as we make the shift to renewables. It looks like Obama and Clinton get that. Will the greens who elected them?
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