Anti-Alberta Billboards In the States

By Allison Bailer
Updated July 15, 2010 - 8:52am

 Alberta is famous worldwide for its stunning mountain vistas and wide open spaces, but a U.S. environmental group wants oil-soaked birds to be the image that sticks out in tourists’ minds. San Francisco-based Corporate Ethics International launched a new billboard campaign yesterday that urges would-be visitors to “rethink” planning a trip to Alberta. The billboards compare the oilsands to the Gulf of Mexico disaster.