Alberta premier
Alison Redford has promised to take Al Gore to task at the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland on Friday for “providing information to people that isn’t
accurate” concerning the oil sands.
She claims, with
good justification, that much of Gore’s activism against her province’s most
important project is not based on sound science. Since the premier’s meeting
with the former vice-president is private, Redford has said that she will
report back on how the discussion goes.
Redford will
probably ask Gore why he asserts that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the
oil sands threatens global climate when only just over one one-thousandth of
total worldwide emissions from human activities come from the project. She will
likely also argue that oil sands emissions are inconsequential as long as China
continues to bring more and more coal-fired electricity generating stations on
line, stations that in total emit far more CO2 than the oil sands……..
To do
this, Redford needs to ask Gore the 19 simple questions listed below, or at
least a representative sample of them. If she is brave enough to do this and
then publicize Gore’s answers, it would go a long way towards helping defeat
the main threat to oil sands expansion: the erroneous belief that the project,
or indeed any hydrocarbon fuel project, is a significant threat to world
climate……To Read More….
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