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Discusses the plans of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and criticism of the plan by the petroleum industry. Indication the Kyoto pact has public support; Discussion of how Kyoto is viewed as a threat to competition and investment, especially in Alberta, the main oil- and gas-producing province; Details of the 1997 Kyoto treaty that calls for developed nations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, which are thought to cause global warming; How the prospect of ratification has caused some companies such as Canadian Natural Resources to scale back some operations in Canada; Idea that energy executives are promoting an alternative solution to the problem of global warming, according to Pierre R. Alvarez, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers; Estimate of Petro-Canada on the amount of greenhouse-gas pollutants they have eliminated since 1990; Support for the treaty from Gordon Lambert, vice president for sustainable development at Suncor Energy, which owns oil-sands operations.