I'm linking this to Facebook. I feel just like your picture up there!!

"We don't do advocacy," Tallett said. "Our goal is to tell it like it is, to tell the way we see it… If we were the pet of government agencies or oil companies, the other side wouldn't come to us."----

He says this as if there actually were different sides of the issue with the agencies and industries involved. From all I have seen, they are all sharing the same bed. The other side would be environmental groups and private land owners.

I know it sounds somewhat insignificant. But "tar" more readily gets across what we're dealing with here: sticky black gunk that has to be heavily processed (in an extremely energy intensive manner) to get any useful energy out of it. "Oil sands" to me sounds much less icky. It's similar to how they like to rename mountaintop removal mining as "mountaintop mining" or even "mountaintop development."

to the Texas and Louisiana coastal export refineries. Refineries owned by various 1%ers and China oil importing businesses.

EVERY SINGLE consulting firm has evil clients.

ALL OF THEM.

If you're qualified to prepare a document for a project of that magnitude, then you've worked with big oil companies before.