Britain & Canada's assault on Kyoto

An utterly brilliant, and equally shocking, piece by Solomon Hughes on Canada’s tar sands industry and the response from the British government.

[E]xtracting the oil [from tar sands] is a bit like trying to make lollies from beach deposits left by distracted children — you need to go through a lot of sand and a lot of energy before you can reform the spill from those dropped ices into a proper suckable Fab…

Break rules on claiming benefit and it’s off to jail. Break an international treaty about saving the planet and it is gentle encouragement.