"Hi all, the wind came up and it was hard to get the banner to fly properly, but that's shoe-string enviro-work for you."

Canada, according to its environment minister, produces only 2% of the World's GHG emissions. In Copenhagen, the Canadian delegation mounted a pro Tar-Sands campaign that amounted to 30-40% of the obstruction to a substantive agreement to lower those emissions, according to independent journalist, Joan Russow. The proposed pipeline to transmit the dirty oil to Kitimat on the the BC coast will enable the continued use of fossil fuels responsible for the acidification of the ocean. The Green Team recently appointed by B.C. premier, Gordon Campbell in a tit for tat turnaround awarded him a "Green Leadership Award" in Copenhagen. The award resembling a pyramid of green Kryptonite is a symbolic reminder of deterrence to all eco super heroes who might oppose these destructive energy policies. One such Champion, undeterrable eco-activist Ingmar Lee found it tough going rapelling in strong 40 km hour wind deploying a banner today in front of the B.C. Legislature in Victoria.

Lee's December 19 action highlights the proposed Enbridge Pipeline. Lee has led movements in B.C. to protect ancient forests, and protest the shipment of raw logs out of BC.

Lee was arrested after hanging the banner by Victoria City Police and charged with mischief. The banner was quickly cut down by a local tree service.

Upon his release Lee stated to journalist Chris Cook:

"After being appalled and dismayed to see Canada shamed and embarrassed before the world by our prime minister and the premier of B.C.; and furthermore, the unbelievable issuance of a 'Green Leadership Award' to Gordon Campbell by Tzeporah Berman of Forest Ethics, I felt compelled to point out to the people of Canada: Gordon Campbell is the champion of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline scheme.

"This project, if it proceeds will deliver half of the Alberta Tar Sand's daily production to the B.C. coast via an eleven hundred kilometre, one-metre diameter pipeline, to Kitimat where it will be loaded onto as many three hundred very large crude carriers (VLCC's) per year, from where it will be delivered to the world's insatiable and planet-killing internal combustion engines. This is not a Green premier, and Gordon Campbell's project is a colossal crime against the planet."

With files courtesy of Chris Cook and Janine Bandcroft of Pacific Free Press and StreetNewz