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September 15th, 2009
Calgary Herald -- Green coalition plans to disrupt PM's visit to U.S.
Ads, anti-oilsands videos part of campaignSeptember 15th, 2009
A coalition of North American environmental groups plans to welcome Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Washington this week with an advertising blitz targeting Alberta's oilsands and Ottawa's climate change policy.
"Our top line message is that Canada's tarsands are inconsistent with President Obama's clean energy vision," says Gillian McEachern, senior climate campaigner at ForestEthics.
Dimitri Soudas, a spokesman for Harper, said the prime minister plans to use his meeting with President Barack Obama on Wednesday "to continue to promote Canada as a secure and stable supply of energy" to the United States...
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