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globeandmail.com: Protesters disrupt Stelmach fundraising dinner

As protests go, the timing couldn't have been better. Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach was just about to deliver an anti-Greenpeace message to a Tory fundraising dinner Thursday, when two Greenpeace activists dropped from the ceiling with a large anti-Stelmach banner. "Stelmach, the best premier oil money can buy," read the large banner with a prominent Greenpeace logo. "Stop the tarsands!" The punchline of the Premier's speech was how he was planning trips to southern California and central Europe later this year to dispel the Greenpeace message that rapid oil sands development is creating an environmental disaster.

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