Oil Sands, Keystone XL, and the New Politics of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

Oil Sands, Keystone XL, and the New Politics of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

from The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate by mark.e.caine

There’s no use talking about new energy sources without assessing the social, political, and economic contexts into which they might emerge. For unless a nascent technology can command broad stakeholder assent within a given socio-political context, the technology is likely to remain marginal within it. The Canadian oil sands, which I discussed here previously, provide a case in point. And, perhaps, a harbinger of things to come.http://theenergycollective.com/markecaine/195076/oil-sands-and-keystone-xl-new-politics-infrastructure?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+%28all+posts%29&utm_content=Google+Reader