Oilsands never 'green' - From Montreal Gazette

Stelmach's agent in Washington, deputy premier Ron Stevens, was attempting to persuade the U.S. government to leave Alberta off a list of countries producing "dirty oil," from which imports would be banned.
U.S. advocacy group National Resource Defence Council certainly didn't. Spokeswoman Liz Barratt-Brown said calling the oil sands sustainable was "ludicrous," given the "enormous amounts of global warming and toxic pollution" they create. OK, so they're a bunch of sad-sack lefties.
But listen to Clement Bowman, a Canadian pioneer of oil-sands development, who's just won the equivalent of a Nobel prize for his work on energy research.
Bowman wrote Prime Minister Stephen Harper, warning him that, until environmental issues are dealt with, the oil sands have "hit a wall."
Today, as an area the size of Florida is defaced, Lougheed pleads for a halt to further expansion until the extent of the damage is determined.