Canada’s oilsands strategy includes lobbying against global-warming measures: documents

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Source: Montreal Gazette

OTTAWA — Three major departments in the federal government have been actively co-ordinating a communications strategy with Alberta and its fossil-fuel industry to fight international global-warming policies that “target” oilsands production, newly released federal documents reveal.

The documents, obtained by Postmedia News, suggest that Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada as well as the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, have collaborated on an “advocacy strategy” in the U.S. to promote the oilsands and discourage environmental-protection policies.
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The email, dated Dec. 1, 2008, is part of hundreds of pages of documents released through an access-to-information request by Climate Action Network Canada.
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“There are states, there are regions, there are countries in this world that are trying to make progress to deal with the problem of climate change, and our government is actually trying to stand in their way,” said Graham Saul, executive director of Climate Action Network, which represents environmental, labour and faith-based groups concerned about global warming.

“(Canada has) actually created a monster that’s going into other countries and trying to undermine clean-energy and climate-change policy and that’s totally inexcusable and it’s outrageous.



Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Canada+oilsands+strategy+includes+lobbying+against+global+warming/3863881/story.html

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This is no surprise, really.

[polly7]

1. No, it's not a surprise.

Harpers conservatives have also worked hard to make climate change a non-issue using some pretty dirty tactics. The tar-sands are an abomination not only to Alberta, Canada, but to the rest of the world. Please lobby to ban our dirty-oil. We're trying.

http://www.petropolis-film.com/#/photos/1/

http://www.tarsandswatch.org/

CAN Report: Canadian Scientists Muzzled by Harper Government
http://westcoastclimateequity.org/2010/03/22/can-report-canadian-scientists-muzzled-by-harper-government/

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2. Depressed yet? Take heart!

In 100 years, or so, we'll all be dead!