Before arriving in California, Greta led a climate strike outside the Alberta Legislature in the province’s capital city of Edmonton. Not far from the Legislature on a section of a downtown “free graffiti wall” Greta’s portrait was admiringly painted by a local artist. Predictably, the mural was quickly defaced with a pro-oil message. The vandal, captured on camera, says, “This is Alberta. This is oil country. My father has worked in the oil industry. We don’t need foreigners coming in and telling us how to run our business, support our families, put food on our tables. [Thunberg] is a child who is, “doing what she’s told.”
“populist conservatism” is mindlessly cherishes tradition and is usually about calculating profits. Leading this battle in Alberta is Premier Jason Kinney who has committed $30-million to a “war room”. This war room will be tasked to flush-out and counter what his United Conservative government is calling “foreign interests” that support activists who spread lies about the province’s oil and gas industry.
— source commondreams.org | Oct 31, 2019