Government Accounting

The world is concerned about global warming and climate change. The United Nations has set up a system whereby every country is to account for their contributions of pollution on a yearly basis. Our industries are to provide diligent statistics and they have. Our government for some reason provided their yearly report at the last minute, actually after countries like Libya  and Japan and emitted the statistics regarding the Tar Sands.

This is one of the worlds greatest polluters and to have these facts not reported makes our country looking like a cheater on the world's stage. Could the fact that these statistics would have made us looking poorly because we have not met our goal of reducing gases and in fact would have shown us to be polluting even more as our output in the Alberta tar sands has increased.

I also am sure that there is great concern from the oil barons who are gathering huge amounts of wealth from Canadian resources which belong to all Canadians. There is something strange about the relationship among the Alberta, world and Canadian oil policies makers who are turning a blind eye to this tragic situation. In years to come after oil is not the energy which we will need that area of the country will be left with a polluted wasteland. There is time to correct or at least  modify the process of extracting oil from tar sand. It would be more costly but at $100 a barrel the industry could well afford to pay the price.