tar sands lobbying

Anyone concerned or simply intrigued by the controversy over Canada's climate-wrecking tar sands needs to check out The Tyee homepage every day for the next few weeks. The Tyee's tar sands investigative reporter Geoff Dembicki today released the first installment of his upcoming series exploring the intense lobbying battles taking place right now in Washington, D.C. over the future of tar sands development vis-a-vis the United States' oil addiction.

Today's installment was mainly a teaser about what is to come in the series, which will begin in earnest tomorrow with Dembicki's report on the one-on-one interview he conducted with former Republican congressman Tom Corcoran, who is now a major lobbyist working to convince U.S. lawmakers to embrace Canadian tar sands as a source of non-Middle-Eastern oil.