Fry urges Green Shift in town hall
THE CALGARY SUN
2008-08-06 03:03:48 MST
By SHAWN LOGAN
Still stinging from Alberta's rebuke of the federal Liberal's Green Shift strategy, one of the party's top guns made the pitch to a tough crowd last night.
Liberal MP Hedy Fry, in Calgary for a round table talks on proposed changes to Canada's copyright act, continued the opposition's campaign to drum up support for the plan, that has drawn fire from Alberta's energy sector, at a meeting at the Hillhurst Sunnyside Community Hall.
Despite comparisons to the hated National Energy Program from the 1970s, Fry said Albertans haven't been given the full picture of the plan and she's hoping to win some converts in the energy-rich province.
"It's been made into a bogeyman even before it came out," she said. "We're making the effort to explain it because a lot of people don't understand that it's going to shift money back into their pockets."
Fry said the plan encourages heavy carbon emitters, primarily those in Alberta's oilsands, to create technologies to curb their impact on atmosphere with financial incentives.
"Those who continue to emit will be smacked and those who work on lowering them will be rewarded," she said.
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