The document, obtained under the Access to Information Act by the environmental group Greenpeace, comes to light as Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is in the United States burnishing the environmental record of the oilsands in an effort to bolster the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
Oliver met last July in Calgary with nine members of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, where they discussed the ''importance of communicating to Canadians'' the benefits of the energy sector and environmental measures.