American environmental groups, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) pressured President Barack Obama to bring a "clean energy message" to Canada and its Conservative Party Prime Minister, Stephen Harper during yesterday’s summit, Obama’s first outside the United States. Both the United States and Canada are increasingly turning to unconventional sources of fuel in places like Alberta’s tar sands.
"The tar sands don't have a place in the low carbon economy" said Josh Mogerman of NRDC Chicago.
The process, which extracts and converts tar sands into commercial-grade fuel, causes extensive habitat degrada....