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Canadian Premiere: Al Gore's Hot Air

Al Gore is in for the cold shoulder should he ever pay a visit to the oil and gas rich Canadian province of Alberta.

"I don't listen to Al Gore in particular because he's a Democrat, and not only that, he's about as far left as you can go," says Ralph Klein, the province's Conservative premier.

He was reacting to Gore's comments in Rolling Stone that processing oil sands is a huge waste of energy that also harms the landscape of Western Canada.

"For every barrel of oil they extract there, they have to use enough natural gas to heat a home for four days…It's truly nuts. But you know, junkies find veins in their toes. It seems reasonable to them because they've lost sight of the rest of their lives."

Gore's remarks had Klein, who recently returned from a trip to Washington to promote Alberta's oil and gas industry, seeing red.

"I don't know what he proposes the world to run on," the premier retorted. Maybe hot air."
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