Check out this must-read piece from the Georgia Straight’s Charlie Smith on NDP federal leadership candidate Brian Topp’s critique of the Tar Sands and the woeful economics of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline – which would ship raw bitumen and jobs from Alberta to refineries in Texas.

“I think it is a fundamentally wrong economic choice and a wrong
environmental choice with enormous consequences on the streets of
Vancouver and all across the country…[Canada is] throwing a raw resource to somebody else’s industrial economy for them to get the value and the benefit from. We’re robbing our children of the value of this resource.” (September 29, 2011)

http://www.straight.com/article-472791/vancouver/ndp-candidate-targets-tarsands-economics