The Buffalo News, August 17, 2008 - “Beneath the forests of Alberta, 2,300 miles miles northwest of Buffalo, you’ll find the latest black gold: a mix of sand and oil being mined as a new kind of gusher. And Alberta’s Athabasca Oil Sands are just part of a petroleum boom that has made Canada the world’s top supplier of oil to the United States. The boom could make its way to Buffalo through two proposed pipelines that would carry Canadian oil through Western New York to refineries in the Philadelphia area. The boom also serves as a backdrop for two of the big issues in the U. S. presidential race between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain: the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the U. S. oil supply.” Read more.