Oil Sands: good for jobs, good for our economy, and good for Exxon but what about the environmental impacts (here). The ad claims that tar sands oil extraction is "equivalent" to other forms of extraction (drilling) but that might not be the case (here). The ad does encourage us to "Think Progress"!
Demonstrations are going on right now in Washington DC (here), the State Department is about to approve a pipeline from Alberta to Texas (here), the New York Times has editorialized against the project (here) and the controversy was discussed on tonight's PBS News Hour. All the attention is probably too little, too late. In any event, this Exxon commercial is probably a good candidate for the Green Tweener award.
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