Metro - Prentice sits for meeting with John Kerry to discuss climate change

WASHINGTON - Canada's environment minister sat down Monday for a chat with one of the most powerful senators in the United States but the issue that's hounding Jim Prentice back home - Alberta's oilsands - was not discussed.

"The subject never came up," Prentice said following the half-hour discussion with John Kerry in the senator's Capitol Hill office.

Global Warming: Using the Polar Bear to Impose Costly Measures

Bottom line: Environmental activists could use the ESA to hold up any of thousands of projects across the U.S. This would include many if not all of the "shovel ready" projects that are funded in the stimulus package.

Government and the Environment | Coyote Blog

You mean government exempts itself from its own rules? No way!