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Al Gore spews out same old, same old garbage in Canada
6 May 2013
(CRC)—Al Gore is in Canada to put in his two cents against the Keystone pipeline to the United States and the Alberta oil sands which he called an ‘open sewer’. It was left to Canadian Resources Minister Joe Oliver to rebuke Al Gore’s comments on Canada’s climate change record as ‘wildly inaccurate and exaggerated’. Gore was featured on the front page of the Saturday edition of The Globe&Mail , in an exclusive interview. In response to Gore, Oliver said that “using words like ‘open sewer’ are unfortunate and an attempt to create an impression which is false, the minister told the Globe. Last month the Canadian Resources Minister also had to respond to the ‘exaggerated rhetoric’ of scientific imposter NASA’s James Hansen whose climate change propaganda was seriously challenged by Executive Intelligence Review in 2008. Minister Oliver will be traveling to Paris, London and Brussels to counter a European new ‘fuel quality directive’ coming up for a vote later this year that would bar Alberta’s tar sands oil from being sold in Europe. The Globe&Mail’s Doug Saunders reports on Minister Oliver’s argument that “other sources of fuel, including oil from Venezuela, Russia and Africa, come with a much higher emissions count than advertised, as natural gas is burned off or vented during extraction – and that byproduct doesn’t count in the emissions total. As a result, assertions that Canadian crude is dirtier are not true, he said”. [GG] |