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/CNW/ - Dr. Rick Smith, Executive Director of
Environmental Defence, Dr. Marlo Raynolds, Executive Director of the
Pembina Institute and Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney for Natural
Resources Defense Council, will hold a telephone news conference today
on expectations regarding this weeks visit of U.S. Speaker of the
House, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, and the Honorable Edward Markey,
Chairman of the Energy and Environment Committee of the House Energy and
Commerce Committee and Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy
Independence and Global Warming.

Premier Stelmach has stated that his goal for the meeting with Speaker
Pelosi is to appeal to her sense of reason and talk about what has
been accomplished with the oil sands and how were going to overcome any
of the environmental challenges that come with any natural resource
extraction. The news conference will highlight the lack of
environmental improvements in the tar sands especially in light of
recent report linking oil sands operations with downstream contamination
of the Athabasca watershed.

Who:

Dr. Rick Smith, Executive Director, Environmental Defence
Dr.
Marlo Raynolds, Executive Director, The Pembina Institute
Liz
Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney, NRDC

When:

September 8, 2010, 1:30pm ET

Where:

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