Energy security is very much the topic at our NATO parliamentarian association meetings. When we talk about energy and our abundance in the oil sands, our colleagues across the pond refer to the oil from oil sands as “dirty oil”. When I ask them what they mean by dirty oil, they say, well, it burns dirty--more dirty than the oil from the Middle East or anywhere else.
Is there an independent study we can refer to that would show a how clean the oil sands products burn compared to production in other parts of the world?