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Frances Beinecke: President Obama: Don't Give Canadian Tar Sands a Free Climate Pass

 

Published 2/18/2009 by Frances Beinecke at Green on HuffingtonPost.com

Blog" /> Blog" /> Blog" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-02-04-switchboard.gif"width="130" height="36" style="float: right; margin: 0 10px" /> Tomorrow President Obama is traveling to Canada. Most American presidents head to Ottawa on their first state visit, using the trip to our northern neighbor as an easy transition to the world stage. But this time, in addition to the usual talk of trade and military deployments, a new topic is coming sharply into focus: Prime Minister Harper wants to discuss giving Canada's dirty tar sands fuel a pass from greenhouse gas limits. Such a proposal might have fallen on receptive ears during the Bush years, but President Obama supports rigorous measures to curb global warming -- measures built on clean energy, not exemptions for filthy fossil fuels. This is a president who, six days after the inauguration, invited me and other members of the environmental community to the White House to witness a key announcement about global warming ... (link)

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