It may be a buyer’s market these days, but it would be wrong to sell short the long-term prospects for the oilsands. Marathon Oil’s announcement this week that it terminated negotiations with an unnamed company to sell part of its stake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project made it the latest of a half-dozen companies that reportedly put oilsands assets on the block and didn’t conclude a sale.

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