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.
