Jobs, jobs, jobs, especially in Alberta’s oil industry; they have been at the centre of our national political debate for most of the last three years. The Syncrude oil sands extraction facility is reflected in a tailings pond near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta on June 1, 2014. That’s because the headlines read, “Cleaning up Alberta’s oilpatch could cost $260 billion” instead of: cleaning up Alberta’s oilpatch could spark a reclamation boom that would create decades of full employment in the province and beyond. You see, in Canada, the oil industry has a legal obligation to return oil and gas sites to near their original state after their productive life ends. Whatever the mechanism, Alberta’s reclamation renaissance would be a major part of the epochal climate transition Canada needs to embrace on an emergency basis.

Source: thestar November 06, 2018 17:56 UTC