- by Cathryn Wellner
A strong contender to become Alberta’s next Premier, Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith, has been in the hot seat lately over her statement that “the science [of climate change] isn’t settled, and we need to continue to monitor the debate.” She made the comment in an online leadership debate that two Alberta newspapers had organized.Despite repeated questions from media and other candidates for Alberta’s upcoming election, Smith has so far avoided clarifying her stand on man-made climate change. Instead, she focuses on her support for extracting oil from the province’s tar sands.
Her stand has not wavered from her 2010 speech to the Wildrose annual general meeting, when she insisted critics of the oil sands were distorting the truth. Reacting to charges that “oil sands oil produces three times the greenhouse gases of conventional oil,” she said:...... more
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