The Star: Canada needs to clean up its act in the oil sands and fight those who’ve given the country a global black eye, Environment Minister Jim Prentice says. Prentice said the Conservative government will continue to support development of the vast stores of sandy bitumen in northern Alberta because it’s one of Canada’s key economic drivers. But companies need to become more environmentally responsible so that Canada can achieve the “clean energy superpower” mantle to which the government aspires. “We aspire to be a respected and environmentally responsible producer of all forms of energy, whether renewables such as hydro or non-renewables such as the oil sands,” Prentice said in a speech at the University of Calgary.
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