The Canadian Oil Sands and the Bridge to a Clean-Energy Future

The Canadian oil sands are dirty, remote, expensive to produce and at the same time plentiful and in short supply. Whatever your feelings are on the topic the fact is the oil sands represent an increasingly critical component of the bridge that must be built to the often prophesied clean-energy future.
That’s one clear point to take away from a pair of reports out during the past couple weeks. Another is that the Canadian oil sands represent an opportunity for investors to build wealth through steady, reliable income and what could be--if recent research and forecasts prove even remotely accurate--significant capital upside.
By whatever measure, and even overweighting the most favorable studies, full life-cycle oil sands production results in more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional methods of developing crude. Oil sands concentrations in north central Canada require significant infrastructure investment to make their exploitation more economic. Even assuming completion of prospective pipelines such as Keystone XL, for example, the extraction process, done on a massive scale, is capital-heavy and energy-intensive.
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