Traditional Crude Oil Seen Making Way for Dirtier Crude From Canadian Tar Sands; Proposed Tar Sands Production Increase Would Be the Equivalent of 16 New Refineries in the U.S.

Future oil refining in the U.S. may soon get much “dirtier” — including three times more greenhouse gas emissions in the extraction process — as refineries place their bets on a shift away from traditional crude oil to Canadian tar sands, according to a major new report issued today by the independent Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). (more…)