Breaking: Eco-chicken James Cameron visits Canadian oil sands, decides he approves of the general idea

Q&A: Avatar Director James Cameron on Oil Sands and Environmentalism - Ecocentric - TIME.com

I've spent the last few days flying, coptering and driving around northern Alberta with the director James Cameron, taking a close look at the massive oil sands developments in the Canadian province.
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Cameron: That depends on the pace of that extraction and burning versus the pace of the conversion to a renewable energy economy. You want to convert to renewables, so maybe you only need half of that resource, but I'm not sure it can be done. I want to see the green economy progress because dirty oil just becomes obsolete over the course of time. But in the meantime we're going to need it. We need it for energy security. That is something of an epiphany on this trip—or maybe it's just me asserting my Canadian spirit, but the idea that Canada can play a pivotal role in the energy security of the U.S. and North America in general is cool. I think that's cool but it has to be done right.
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...I'm speaking from a U.S. perspective, and you still need oil—you need it for trucks and airplanes. You need it for fuel.

Time: And better from a political sense if it comes from a country other than the Middle East?

Cameron: That's my point. If we have to choose something we can produce onshore in North America versus something made in the Middle East in an even more egregious way.