Frustrated Tar Sands Industry Looks for Arctic Export Route by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360
▻http://e360.yale.edu/feature/frustrated_tar_sands_industry_looks_for_arctic_export_route/2862
The Alberta tar sands industry — and the governments that depend on tar sands tax revenues — are facing an increasingly pressing problem: How to get the growing flow of oil sands bitumen to market. And with proposed pipelines to the south, east, and west facing stiff opposition, tar sands interests are now investigating another controversial option — heading north and shipping their product via the Arctic.