Our Comment in Nature calling for oil sands moratorium
July 1, 2014
July 1, 2014
National Geographic: Photograph by Peter Essick
On June 25th, Mark Jaccard wrote the following on his blog:
Here is the press release for our Nature paper, released June 25, calling for a moratorium on oil sands expansion. This means no loss of current jobs in the oil sands. But it does mean a return to sanity from this selfish rush to accelerate global warming, ocean acidification and ecological destruction – events that will lead to huge economic and social costs according to a just-released study by the World Bank. It does mean that we should not build new pipelines like Keystone XL, Northern Gateway and others.