Kevin Grandia has the skinny on Alberta (it’s in Canada) Premier Ed Stelmach’s visit to D.C. to shill for tar sands and to fight "the myth that the environmental cost of the oilsands is too high."

Below is Stelmach with a very perspicacious polar bear:

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Stelmach and bear

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