Canada’s Tar-Sands Image Set for Overhaul With New Premier
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Canada’s reputation as climate bad-boy was invented in Manhattan in 2008.
Months before TransCanada Corp. applied for a permit for Keystone XL and the pipeline battles that followed, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund convened a gathering of environmental groups to discuss a strategy for taking down Canada’s tar-sands industry. The vast deposits of bitumen in northern Alberta were not necessarily seen in the league of Chinese coal as a carbon offender. But bad enough, and uniquely vulnerable to pressure because of Canada’s isolation and dependence on a single market, said two people familiar with the discussions who asked not to be identified because the meeting was private.