Photo by Peter Essick
Anti-tar sands activists coveted a major victory this week, as President Obama officially delayed the construction and approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would serve to bring oil directly from Canada’s Alberta Tar Sands to numerous refineries in the American south. The Canadian Tar Sands have been a hotly contested issue in Canadian and International environmental discourse for over a decade. Strangely, a new advocate for the expansion and legitimacy of the Alberta Tar Sands is Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the original Co-founders of the international environmentalist group Greenpeace. Dr. Moore appears in a television campaign for the Canadian association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), walking through a former Tar Sands mining site that has since been replanted with numerous flowers, indigenous trees and other flora and fauna.
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The Economics of Renewable Energy: Is Solar Energy a Wise Investment?
With oil pipelines being vehemently protested and delayed in both the US and Canada, and rural resistance to wind power staying strong, is solar energy the most economically efficient option for policy makers and investors? Billionaire Warren Buffet certainly thinks so, as proven by his recent purchase of the $2 billion dollar Topaz project in Southern California, one of the world’s largest solar PV plants.
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