BY JEAN LOUIS DEVEAU
FEB 2014 | RESOURCE WARS 40.1
IMAGINE GOING TO YOUR FAVOURITE BAR year after year and ordering beer on tap. Then, one day, the tap runs dry. All that’s left are the drops that have fallen on the bar floor after decades of beer-thirsty customers. The only way to get more beer is to squeeze droplets out of the rug and into your mug.
As the former climate and energy coordinator with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick (CCNB), Raphael Shay often used this analogy to explain how the oil and gas industry feeds our addiction to fossil fuels. The growing scarcity of conventional oil and gas has forced the industry to mine the stains in the rug – dirty, difficult-to-extract resources like tar sands bitumen and shale gas.
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