{"id":9161,"date":"2019-06-07T17:38:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T21:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:27:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:27:41","slug":"statement-kenneys-war-room-is-a-distraction-from-the-battle-we-should-be-fighting-and-that-is-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/9161\/statement-kenneys-war-room-is-a-distraction-from-the-battle-we-should-be-fighting-and-that-is-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT: Kenney\u2019s \u2018war room\u2019 is a distraction from the battle we should be fighting,  and that is climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>June 7, 2019 \u00a0&#8211; (TORONTO) &#8211; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In reaction to the Alberta government\u2019s update on its $30 million \u2018war room\u2019 that will attack environmental organizations raising concerns about the environmental impacts of the oil industry, Keith Stewart, senior energy strategist with \u00a0Greenpeace Canada said: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe all understand wishing that the oil boom could go on forever as if climate change didn\u2019t exist, but that\u2019s not the world we live in. Jason Kenney can spend $30 million on political theater to try to distract us from the deadly seriousness of climate scientists\u2019 warnings, but that won\u2019t keep wildfires, heat waves or floods from getting worse or stop the seas from rising. Shooting the messenger might make for great election campaign rhetoric, but ignoring inconvenient truths does nothing to prepare Alberta for the coming transition off of fossil fuels. \u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-30-<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>For more information, please contact:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Loujain Kudi, Communications Officer,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lokurdi@Greenpeace.org,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lokurdi@Greenpeace.<wbr \/>org,<\/a>\u00a0514-577-6657<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 7, 2019 \u00a0&#8211; (TORONTO) &#8211; In reaction to the Alberta government\u2019s update on its $30 million \u2018war room\u2019 that will attack environmental organizations raising concerns about the environmental impacts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,25],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate","tag-energysolutions","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9165,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}