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Why Canada's Oil Sands Industry Wants the CO2 Tax That Harper Hates
2013-02-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vilified political opponents who support a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions. The oil-sands industry, Canadas fastest growing CO2 polluter, says hes out of step. The contradiction of an industry seeking a new tax on itself has emerged in energy-rich Canada because producers are concerned the crude they process from tar-like sands will be barred from foreign markets for releasing more carbon in its production than competing fossil fuels. Oil companies...
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