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Alberta Oilsands wrong target for environmentalists: Professor say focus should be on coal-fired electricity instead
One of the world’s leading experts on greenhouse gas emissions says environmentalists have picked the wrong target in the Alberta oilsands and should instead focus on coal-fired electricity.
"If we’re serious, we have to think about cutting it (emissions) where it’s cheapest. We can’t afford to just spend our money cutting it wherever the current politics tells us to cut it,” says Prof. David Keith, an environmental and energy expert from the University of Calgary, who was voted the top environmental scientist in Canada in 2006 by Canadian Geographic magazine in 2006.
By David Staples
Full Story: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Technology/Oilsands+wrong+target+environmentalists+prof/1023491/story.html
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