“What U.S. doesn’t understand is that Prime Minister Harper is against climate action. One of the first things he did when elected in 2006 was to cancel the previous Liberal government’s climate change plan.” May said greenhouse gas emissions from the tar sands are growing in two ways. First, producers are “digging up more bitumen to mix with toxic diluants and ship to other places,” she said. Also, emissions per barrel are growing as oil sands producers are shifting from open pit production to in situ steam injection production, May explained. “Harper has enunciated that he wants Canada to produce six million barrels of bitumen per day,” May said. “This Canadian government has no interest in limiting climate change to two degrees, other than what it pretends to have.” “Harper once described [the] Kyoto [Protocol] as a socialist ploy, and I’ve never seen anything to disprove that he is a climate denier,” said May. The Conservatives “do have good talking points,” she said. “They repeat them by rote, but that doesn’t make them true.” ens-newswire/2013/08/14/canadians-warn-obama-dont-trust-harpers-tar-sands-rhetoric/
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