{"id":9130,"date":"2018-05-11T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T17:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=c66bca24a0032433e58437ac46326688"},"modified":"2018-05-11T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T17:45:43","slug":"former-vice-president-al-gores-anti-pipeline-tweet-irritates-alberta-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/11\/former-vice-president-al-gores-anti-pipeline-tweet-irritates-alberta-premier\/","title":{"rendered":"Former vice president Al Gore\u2019s anti-pipeline tweet irritates Alberta premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY &#8212; Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says an anti-oilsands tweet by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore shows a lack of understanding about the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Gore said on Twitter on Thursday that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would be a step backward in solving the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline would carry what he called &#8220;dirty tar sands oil,&#8221; a term favoured by industry opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Notley says views like Gore&#8217;s are having an ever-shrinking impact and are falling on more deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>She says progress is being made with Ottawa and pipeline builder Kinder Morgan on getting the project on track before a May 31 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Notley made her remarks at the grand opening of a new maternity unit at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>(Companies in this story: TSX:KML)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY &mdash; Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says an anti-oilsands tweet by former U.S. vice-president Al Gore shows a lack of understanding about the facts. Gore said on Twitter on Thursday that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would be a step backward in solving the climate crisis. He said the Alberta-to-B.C. pipeline would carry what he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9150,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}