MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release
August 5, 2009
ED: PLAY FAIR
Alberta based advocacy groups place ad directed at Albertan premier
Regina, SK – Upon opening up the Regina’s Leader Post this morning, Albertan Premier Ed Stelmach will be greeted with his own face on a full-page advertisement titled, ‘Ed: Play fair with the other premiers on global warming’. The Albertan premier is in Regina this week for the annual Council of the Federation meetings where he will be discussing important energy, climate and trade issues with the other provincial leaders. Alberta-based advocacy groups Sierra Club, Public Interest Alberta, Council of the Canadians, and Greenpeace placed the ad in the paper to target the Albertan Premier, known for his unfettered support of accelerated tar sands activity despite the fact that the tar sands are the fastest growing emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. The full-page ad reads:
ED: PLAY FAIR: With the Other Premiers on Global Warming
We Albertans are proud people who don’t ask others to carry our load.
Yet while other provinces make the emissions cuts needed to protect our
children from the worst impacts of global warming we are shirking our
responsibility by increasing global warming pollution from the tar sands.
That’s not fair.
Premier Stelmach: Please tell the other Premiers at the Council of the Federationin Regina that Alberta won’t make them carry our load. All of Canada’s provinces have to pull their own weight and must make their fair share of real pollution cuts.
The ad is just one element of a number activities planned in Regina this week to highlight public concerns with climate change and to call on the premiers to support science-based climate policy and action. Spokespeople from the organizations behind the ad will be available for comment in Edmonton, and in Regina at 12:00pm launch of the Pedal for the Planet Lobby Loop at the Saskatchewan Legislature (123 Legislative Building, 2405 Legislative Drive).
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For spokespeople in Regina, Saskatchewan, please contact:
Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Greenpeace Canada, 780.504.5567
Andrea Harden-Donahue, Council of Canadians, 613.218.5800
Jeh Custer, Sierra Club Canada, 780.660.5483
For spokespeople in Edmonton, Alberta, please contact:
Lindsay Telfer, Sierra Club Canada, 780.710.0136
Sheila Muxlow, Council of Canadians, 780.233.2528
Mike Hudema, Greenpeace Canada, 780-504-5601
