THE search for alternatives to fossil fuels continues apace. So delegates at Canada’s Gas & Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary, Alberta, were thrilled at the prospect of a presentation from S. K. Wolff, speaking for the US National Petroleum Council – which advises the Department of Energy on behalf of the oil industry – and Florian Osenberg for ExxonMobil.
The delegates were, perhaps, a little disconcerted to hear Wolff declare that current US and Canadian energy policies – including the exploitation of Alberta’s billions of tonnes of oil sands – are “increasing the chances of huge global calamities”. However,…
