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Who is Harper? Rainforest Action Network has an answer

By Alan Septoff

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

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Earlier today, dirtyoilsands.org network member Rainforest Action Network dropped a banner from a bridge at Niagara Falls on the U.S.-Canada border. The banner hang highlights the September 16th visit of Prime Minister Harper to the White House. Harper champions the expansion Big Oil’s tar sands, and would like to see them granted special treatment by the United States when it comes to permitting infrastructure developments and climate change policy.

Expansion of the oil sands is a bad idea — oil sands crude is dirty, dangerous, and expensive. Choosing tar sands oil means choosing to ignore the potential of the new. clean energy economy. Tell President Obama: don’t buy what Prime Minister Harper is selling!

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