Clean up your own backyard, Stelmach tells Gore

Gore was in Calgary speaking at a sold-out Jack Singer Concert Hall about his Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which argues global warming, spurred by the use of carbon-based fuels such as oil and coal, is the biggest threat facing the world.

He has targeted the oilsands, suggesting far too much natural gas is burned processing northern Alberta's bitumen.

But Stelmach, who hasn't seen the documentary, said Monday in Calgary the province is merely feeding Americans' insatiable demand for energy, so perhaps Gore should look closer to home.