Canada’s oil sands produce some of the dirtiest oil on the planet. Their abnormally high carbon emissions have earned Albertan oil a soiled reputation not just among environmentalists, but among many politicians and their constituents as well. Now, Alberta is trying to win back some favor with a new, revolutionary plan to clean up their oil sands by turning to an unlikely adversary–the nuclear energy industry. A United States Congressional Research Service report released back in 2012–when the potential approval of the Keystone XL pipeline crossing the U.S.-Canada border was an extremely contentious political hot topic ( as it continues to be today )–estimated that the Canadian oil introduced to U.S. markets via the heavily debated pipeline “would be the equivalent of boosting U.S. global-warming emissions by between 0.06 percent and 0.3 percent per year” according to reporting by the Washington Post . “At the high end, that’s like […]