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Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach announced a "climate change plan" today that involves tripling oil production and waiting until 2020 before even beginning to curtail CO2 emissions.

"It would be very difficult to bring in real reductions, immediate reductions, without devastating the economy and the quality of life of Albertans," Stelmach told reporters, without explaining why it is necessary to multiply Alberta's current $73 billion US in fossil fuel exports in order to avoid "devastating the economy."

But the most offensive part of Premier Stelmach's political spin is the attempts that he, his Energy minister and his private-sector stalking horses are making to shift responsibility for action onto consumers.