CBC News – Canada will continue to push the important role that Alberta’s oilsands play in the North American marketplace, says Environment Minister Jim Prentice, despite a telling article appearing in March’s National Geographic. “It’s very difficult to see the North American marketplace developing in an orderly way for energy without the oilsands being part of the equation,” Prentice told CBC News on Wednesday. The March issue of the National Geographic provides its estimated 40 million readers with a 20-page article that features pictures of sludge-covered tailing ponds and the sprawling oilfields.

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