Are oil sands incompatible with action on climate change?
By Christophe E McGlade, on 16 April 2015
by Dr Christophe McGlade and Prof Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources
Shortly after our study on unused fossil fuels was published in Nature[1], Andrew Leach, an acknowledged expert in Canadian oil sands, wrote a piece scrutinising some of our conclusions. We were grateful for Andrew’s comments, which he said could be summarised as ‘plenty of good, a lot of bad, and some ugly’. (more…)