Klein rejects environmental concerns over oilsands boom

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Alberta Premier Ralph Klein has scorned a call from an environment group to slow down the pace of the province's oilsands development.

The Pembina Institute and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society released a report on Tuesday calling for a moratorium on oilsands development until a plan to protect the boreal forest in northeastern Alberta is developed.

"The Pembina Institute should keep their noses out of anyone's business, especially businesses that want to take risks," Klein said Thursday.

"To have a long-range plan would be an interventionist kind of policy which says you either allow them or you don't allow them . The last thing we want to be is an interventionist government."

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/08/04/klein-pembina.html

[Manix]

1. Luckily, this idiot's time is almost up!!

[tuvor]

2. To be replaced by...

...whom?

[Bassic]

3. Yet another idiot, quite certainly.

The Tories have a very strong monopoly over there.