(NY) The New York Times – In the tense debate between energy security and environmental sustainability, Canada’s vast oil sand reserves hold a special place.
Canada has the second-largest petroleum deposits after Saudi Arabia and the biggest in the Western hemisphere. Its oil sands produce 1.3 million barrels of oil a day, up from 600,000 a day in 2000. As a result, Canada has become the biggest foreign oil supplier to the United States, accounting for 19 percent of imports in 2008. More