Alberta premier Ed Stelmach has put Ottawa on notice - keep your environmentalist mitts off our oil industry. From the National Post:
"Referring to the federal environment file as a "runaway train" with "every political party trying to get ahead of each other" on cutting greenhouse gases, Mr. Stelmach promised that sacrificing Alberta's energy sector on an altar of green would end in disaster, given that the province already shoulders a major part of the country's economic load.
"Last week in Ottawa, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that the "era of voluntary compliance" to federal greenhouse gas emission standards was "over" and his government is scheduled to deliver a set of aggressive intensity-reduction targets next week. The new regulations are expected to hit the Alberta oil sands especially hard, since the region represents the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the country."
This puts Harpo in an awkward position. Fully 9 of the top 15 GHG emitters in Canada are in Alberta and when it comes to CO2, all roads lead to Ft. McMurray.
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