Environment minister Peter Kent  has attacked critics of the Northern Gateway pipeline while speaking to reporters at the climate conference in Durban, South Africa,  Sunmedia/Quebecor reports.

Foreigners funding 'mischief' against Canada's oilsands: Kent

Environment Minister Peter Kent has warned that some of the opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, which would run from Alberta's oilsands to a new marine terminal in Kitimat, B.C., is not genuine.

"Our government is concerned about some outside finances that have come in to interfere and obstruct what is a legitimate development of ... responsibly developed and sustainably developed Canadian resources," Kent said from a climate conference in Durban, South Africa.