American Pipeline Will Diminish Energy Security, Prominent Canadian Says

InsideClimate: Prominent Canadian economist Robyn Allan [3] made waves in Canada last year with papers claiming that rapid oil sands growth would do more economic harm than good for her country. Allan's controversial analyses [4] focused on the Northern Gateway pipeline, a proposal to carry raw tar sands bitumen through British Columbia for shipment to Asia. One of her main points was that shipping raw crude for upgrading and refining in other countries also means exporting those industries—and jobs—abroad. ......

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