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Rethink Alberta sends anti-oilsands postcards to U.S. travel agents
Featured | The Canadian Press | August 18, 2010
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EDMONTON – The anti-oilsands groups behind the Rethink Alberta billboards in the U.S. and England have opened a third front in their campaign to get potential tourists to reconsider visiting the province.
About 7,500 postcards are arriving over the next days on the desks of travel agents and tourism operators in five U.S. states that are some of Alberta’s most important markets.
The postcards repeat Rethink Alberta’s message that the province’s natural beauty is under threat from poorly regulated oilsands development.
The groups have already mounted billboard campaigns in the U.S. and England.
Critics pointed out mistakes in the American billboards, but campaigners say those have been corrected and the 11 billboards in London are accurate.
