{"id":9044,"date":"2019-11-01T21:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T21:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/?p=9044"},"modified":"2019-12-10T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T22:48:06","slug":"future-of-alberta-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/news\/future-of-alberta-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of Alberta oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nives Dol\u0161ak and Aseem Prakash draw parallels between U.S. coal bankruptcies and Alberta oil sands in their recent article in <em>Forbes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On October 29, 2019, <em>Forbes<\/em> published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/prakashdolsak\/2019\/10\/30\/us-coal-bankruptcies-reveal-the-future-of-alberta-tar-sands\/#59f6cd86df46\">U.S. Coal Bankruptcies Reveal the Future of Alberta Tar Sands<\/a>\u201d by Nives Dol\u0161ak, professor and director of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, and affiliated faculty of Canadian Studies; and Aseem Prakash, Walker Family Professor and the director of the Center for Environmental Politics at UW. They write, \u201cThe wise policy is to start preparing Alberta for a soft landing. The basic idea is to invest in creating non-fossil-fuel jobs. At minimum, Trudeau\u2019s government should not throw a lifeline to the Trans Mountain Pipeline because it is creating an even bigger stock of stranded assets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nives Dol\u0161ak and Aseem Prakash draw parallels between U.S. coal bankruptcies and Alberta oil sands in their recent article in Forbes. 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