Esquire: When last we checked in on the petro-state of Alberta, in western Canada, there was a huge wildfire burning down the city of Fort McMurray, hub of the tar-sands energy revolution--tar-sands being the poisonous glop various multinationals would like to pump all over the continent through pipelines in order to maintain our addiction to dead dinosaur juice.
Opposition to our old friend, the Keystone XL pipeline--the continent-spanning death funnel and current conservative fetish object--had to do...