Canadian oil sands a reasonable alternative to drilling - NashuaTelegraph.com

With the Deepwater Horizon disaster having muddied the future of offshore drilling, energy companies are struggling to find other sources of oil.

One intriguing alternative is Canadian oil sands, which contains petroleum reserves second only to Saudi Arabia and could provide a reliable source of oil that would go a long way toward meeting U.S. needs.
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V.K. Mathur is a professor in the chemical engineering department at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.