Visiting Fort McMurray, Alberta for a two-day conference on tar sands/oil sands development and Aboriginal treaties, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged Canada to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, the CBC reported. “Only those who don’t want to listen, only those who want to be blind can’t see that we are sitting on a powderkeg,” he said last week. The Nobel Peace Prize winner said he was not in town to “tell Canadians what you must do,” but that he hoped to help First Nations and industry find a way forward. “Ultimately, it is far better, it is cheaper, for people to be friends than for people to be enemies.“
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