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"The debate is closing"

The carbonizing of American politics

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft links the Canadian experience of the oil industry’s influence on politics to the United States to industry ties to the George W. Bush government and exploring the public policy lessons arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Kevin Taft

KEVIN TAFT hoolds a Ph.D. in Business and is the author of four best-selling books and many research studies and articles on political and economic issues in Alberta. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta with the Alberta Liberal Party from 2001 to 2012, and Leader of the Opposition from 2004 to 2008. He has extensive public policy experience in the Alberta government, private sector, and non-profit sector, particularly in health, energy, and economic policy. He lives in Edmonton.