Columnist Joel Connelly takes aim at B.C.’s environmental policies, including their plans for energy development on the Canadian North Fork, in the Friday, September 21, 2007 online edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . . .

As a gloves-off crusader against global warming, ex-Vice President Al Gore has labeled as a “complete and total fraud” the Canadian government’s climate change program.
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What’s going to happen when Gore takes the podium at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver next Saturday, Sept. 29th?
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The province has made a much-touted commitment to reduce its current greenhouse gas emissions 33 percent by the year 2020. It pledges a policy of zero net greenhouse gas emissions from existing thermal power generating plants by 2016.
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While pledging to curb emissions from coal-fired power plants, however, British Columbia is feeding Asia’s carbon economy with its coal mines, and acting to facilitate major new mine projects.

It’s a political tactic nicknamed “greenwashing.” Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana has called on Premier Campbell to walk his talk.

After soliciting bids, the B.C. government has begun a process that could lead to approval of a massive coal-bed methane project proposed by British Petroleum for the upper headwaters of the Flathead River valley.

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