We have the solutions to the climate crisis. What is missing to solve the climate crisis is political will. We the people need to tell our elected officials it’s time that polluting industries pay a “dumping” fee, and that we want the money returned to households to help us all make the shift to the clean energy economy of the 21st Century. The price of more delay is economic and human disaster. Our children deserve better.
Yes, ‘fossil fuels further up the cost curve” is a completely apt description for Athabasca bitumen – costly to extract, costly to process, costly to transport, costly in many ways to life on Earth. When the carbon bubble bursts, Christine, we’ll hear it first in the sky above Athabasca. Then the foreign producers will bail out leaving Alberta and Ottawa with the mess to clean up.
350 or bust 
Yes, ‘fossil fuels further up the cost curve” is a completely apt description for Athabasca bitumen – costly to extract, costly to process, costly to transport, costly in many ways to life on Earth. When the carbon bubble bursts, Christine, we’ll hear it first in the sky above Athabasca. Then the foreign producers will bail out leaving Alberta and Ottawa with the mess to clean up.
I agree – although by “Alberta and Ottawa” you mean you, me and all the other Canadians out there. 😦