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Al Gore, Alison Redford ‘agree to disagree’ on climate change
Posted by Calgary Herald: Darcy Henton on January 30th, 2014
Calgary Herald: Premier Alison Redford said she faced down former U.S. vice-president Al Gore in Switzerland over his views on the impact of the oilsands on climate change, and they agreed to disagree.
Redford told reporters Wednesday in her first public appearance since returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos that she used her encounter with Gore at a private session last week to correct myths about the oilsands — and to tell the climate change crusader and other participants about the steps Alberta...
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When oil meets emotion: the Keystone conundrum
Posted by Calgary Herald: Darcy Henton on April 15th, 2013
Calgary Herald: Nebraska farmer Jim Tarnick vows to fight the Keystone XL pipeline to the finish because he believes its approval will be the death of his farm. It's a battle Tarnick says he can't afford to lose. "I will carry it on to the end," the 38-year-old farmer said Friday. "They will really have to take my land from me." If approved by United States President Barack Obama later this year, the Keystone XL pipeline will carry up to 830,000 barrels per day of oil-sands bitumen from Alberta and across Tarnick's...
Redford argues Keystone XL controversy obscuring truth about Alberta’s environmental record
Posted by Calgary Herald: Darcy Henton on April 10th, 2013
Calgary Herald: The polarized debate over the Keystone XL pipeline and global warming overlooks the fact that you can build the pipeline and still reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be good stewards of the land, air and water, Premier Alison Redford told a Washington think tank Tuesday.
Redford told the Brookings Institution that the dialogue over approval of the 1,800-kilometre pipeline between Alberta and the U.S. gulf coast "suffers from some glaring deficiencies, which cause essential truths to be overlooked."...