Well, there went our flag. Sigh

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Over in London, climate protestors scaled the Canadian embassy, cut loose the national flag and dunked it into a barrel of crude. Meanwhile, campaigners Al Gore and Naomi Klein both branded companies active in the Alberta oil fields “climate criminals” at the conference."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/climate-change/how-international-media-view-canadas-climate-record/article1391673/


Edited to add this original article. It does not bode well for our Olympics.

Corporate Canada cast as the villain at Copenhagen

Green groups have been repeatedly awarding their “Fossil of the Day” award to Canada – and the companies with their drills stuck into its tar sands (BP, Shell, Total and Norway’s Statoil). Oil extraction from the tar sands only accounts for about 5pc of Canada’s emissions, but the intensity of its carbon content makes it about ten times more damaging to the planet than fuel from the North Sea, according to scientists.

Over the last few days, anti-Canada sentiment has become more vocal. A group of 11 members of the European parliament this week wrote to the chief executives of BP, Shell, Total and others, urging them to withdraw from the Alberta area. Someone even managed to issue a fake press release – picked up by several journalists – falsely alleging that Canada had pledged to a 40pc cuts in emissions and an end to their dirty oil dream.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/rowenamason/100002690/corporate-canada-cast-as-the-villain-at-copenhagen/

[Spazito]

1. We deserve it, imo...

As long as Canadians continue to support the Harper cabal we are 'getting what we paid for' which is, imo, the cabal working very hard to make our country the mirror image of the United States the bush rabble envisaged.

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2. I agree.

Harper is running the country into the ground, while our Opposition and electorate seem to be asleep.

[gula]

3. I went to see the documentary H2Oil this afternoon.

It should be a must for everyone and played 24/7 to all politicians who try to lie their way out of this mess.

To add insult to injury, most companies seem to be foreing(sp?) owned (BP, Shell, Total and Norway’s Statoil), i.e. the pollution stays while the profits go elsewhere.

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4. Alberta gets some money for it, but on the whole

profits are made by foreign companies.