New clouds build over oil sands

Labor, pipeline shortages plus currency value could displace Kyoto

Gary Park

Petroleum News Calgary correspondent

The one constant in Alberta’s oil sands seems to be that nothing stays the same for long. As fast as proponents came to terms with cost implications of the Kyoto climate change treaty — which itself is hanging by a slender thread as Russia wavers on its commitment and threatens to collapse the prot....

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