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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (106165)12/20/2011 6:25:03 PM
From: zeta1961  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
Even Canada doesn't believe its own spin on tar sandsIn public, Canada's environment minister says tar sands are "sustainable", in private the government says there is no "credible scientific information" to support this.

guardian.co.uk

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Canada's environment minister Peter Kent said at the UN climate change summit in Durban, where Canada won the "colossal fossil" accolade from outraged campaigners, that: "There is a disproportionate amount of criticism of the oil sands which is a responsibly and sustainably developed resource, of which we are proud." In that light, the recent revelation by Canada's Postmedia News of briefing notes prepared in June for Kent and his team is particularly embarrassing. They stated:

Implementing this new monitoring system [of the impact of tar sand exploitation on land, air and water] is an urgent priority to head off threats to the industry, which needs credible scientific information on its environmental performance as soon as possible.

Environment Canada also advised that the absence of scientific evidence supporting their claims was affecting the industry's ability to raise capital from and sell into (the) foreign market.

So, in private, it seems even the Canadians don't believe their own spin.
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