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[Tar Sands Watch -] Stelmach, protester in eco-confrontation; Greenpeace offers ...: But the loudest debate over energy occurred in Edmonton, as Stelmach announced a $100 tax credit for Albertans who install energy-efficient appliances. He was challenged by Paul Baker, a Greenpeace activist and member of an anti-oilsands group, who questioned how Stelmach could call a plan that didn't reduce emissions until 2050 "green."

[Ideas and Issues] Alberta Votes: Stelmach in trouble, Taft ready to shoot: "Ed Stelmach has done nothing to prepare Alberta for the decline of fossil fuels, and neither has Kevin Taft. Both men are too indebted to the oil industry to plan for the day when Albertans can no longer rely on our oil industry."

[Tar Sands Watch -] Bill 46 ramps up tensions with rural Alberta landowners: At a recent Greenpeace demonstration in front of the legislature, protesters held copies of George Orwell's 1984, a novel about a totalitarian society led by Big Brother.

 [Worldwide Bakers] Environmentalist disrupts Tory green announcement: said Paul Baker, a volunteer from a group called STOP, or Stop Tarsands Operations Permanently. He asked how green the Tory plan could be when it allows industrial carbon emissions to increase for the next 12 years and doesn’t require a cut until 2050.

[Tar Sands Watch -] Environmentalism in Alberta?; Activists say communities are ...: With years of environmental negotiating falling on deaf government ears and recent public consultations falling by the wayside, civil disobedience might be Alberta's last resort in ending a devastating project. "Direct action has always had a role in social change because it's had the role of shocking and bringing to light oppression ideas that haven't been named," says Jorge Sousa, an educational policy professor with the University of Alberta and a specialist in community governance models.

 [STOP: Stop Tar Sands Operations Permanently] Alberta Green Plan to Destroy the Planet: “The tarsands are the largest source of greenhouse gas growth in Canada,”˜”˜ said Hudema. “By 2020 they”˜re set to emit over 141 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which is twice as much as all the cars and trucks in Canada.”˜”˜

 [Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: Reuters, February 15, 2007. “A top British judge struck a blow at Prime Minister Tony Blair’s plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations on Thursday, .

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