Feb 4, 2009
Tar Sands: Now Even the Church is Opposed
The Wall Street Journal – Oil sands developers have long parried criticism from environmentalists. Now, Canada’s abundant but dirty oil sands have a new sparring partner—the Church. Bishop Luc Bouchard (Diocese of St. Paul) Bishop Luc Bouchard of St. Paul’s Diocese, smack in the heart of Canadian oil-sands territory, has launched a broadside against oil sands development and their environmental implications. “The present pace and scale of development in the Athabasca oil sands cannot be morally justified,” he wrote in a letter to parishoners last week. The missive wasn’t an attack on the oil-sands workers in Fort McMurray, he said, but everyone else …