I know in Alberta how important the oil sands are now, but being from Ontario it did not occur to me at the start and I thought, " Why can we not just shift now in the next 10 years towards sustainable energy and slowly dwindle off with the Albertan oil sands?'' One of my original ideas was to keep the oil sands, but we export the oil and use the profits to fund R & D. However, as I have been researching more and more I realize that is crazy, economically speaking, and that the Alberta economy relies on these oil sands.
Je mesure l'importance des sables bitumineux en Alberta aujourd'hui, mais étant originaire de l'Ontario, je ne m'en étais pas rendu compte au tout début de mes recherches et je me suis demandé pourquoi ne pourrions-nous pas simplement passer durant les 10 prochaines années à l'énergie renouvelable et abandonner progressivement les sables bitumineux de l'Alberta?