Toronto Star: 2 U.S. firms wash hands of tar sands

[tuvor]

WASHINGTON-Canada’s controversial tar sands industry took its first retail blow Wednesday as two Fortune 500 companies announced plans to eliminate the high-carbon Alberta fuel from its supply chain.

The U.S.-based firms Whole Foods Market Inc. and Bed, Bath and Beyond Inc. both unveiled new fuel policies designed to wean themselves off “higher-than-normal greenhouse gas footprints” inherent in feedstock from the Alberta tar sands.

The decisions are not expected to seriously hamper the southbound flow of Alberta oil, which represents a fifth of all U.S. energy imports.

But they mark a turning point in environmental activism against synthetic crude from Alberta, as climate campaigners work company by company to discourage consumption of Canadian energy.

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http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/763336--2-u-s-firms-wash-hands-of-tar-sands?bn=1

[enid602]

1. good

'Bout time, eh?

[HillbillyBob]

2. Its a start, now to really get some movement to stop

mountain removal in Appalachia and put windmills up there instead.

[NNadir]

3. Oh bull. Is Whole Foods going to start sorting gasoline? Wouldn't that the accounting process

take away from their effort to fight health care reform?

[JoeyT]

4. They're trying to win back their old customers.

I don't think it'll work.