I do know that there are those out there that are interested in the truth and not the typical air headed blabber that is the norm on this site. Getting their information from the celebrities and Socialist ideologists that live a 1000 miles away from us but yet seem to know more about our business than we ourselves do,, could never figure that one out.
As usual Walleyes you are completely wrong. We get our information from the science and economics such as the links GLG posts and like those here.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...keystone-xl-pipeline-impact-on-global-warming
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...ands-oil-makes-climate-change-unsolvable.html
http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/tar-sands/publications/tar-sands-and-global-warming
http://tarsandssolutions.org/tar-sands/climate-impacts
http://www.realclimate.org/
Unlike you, whose sole world view is guided by the rantings of right wing demagogues like Ezra Lavant, we actually read and study the literature and science. The science and scientists are not wrong Walleyes, however much you ignore the evidence or insult and denigrate the messengers.
I raise my kids here, feed my family here, live and play in the woods here yet you all living on the left coast and those living in Hollywood know more about my way of life than I do. Cant quite figure out how that is.
What has this to do with anything? We are not talking about your “way of life”. We are talking about the local and global impacts of what your industry is doing.
I help set up budgets for drilling programs based on prophet margins on sales on our product,, yet you all seem to know more than I do what those prophet margins are. Cant quite figure that one out. I work with and help design and have many friends that work in the environmental end of this industry yet some how you are telling us what is happening here, you all some how know more about it than we do,, cant quite figure that one out.
What a fallacious argument! So a deck hand on fish boat knows more about ocean ecology than the oceanographic scientists and a coal miner knows more about the health and pollution issues of coal than medical professionals. How silly can you get!
Robyn Allen, a
professional economist, has produced an analysis of Northern Gateway here.
http://www.robynallan.com/
But of course you know more about “prophets” (it is actually spelt “profits”!) than she does! You don’t have to read anything because you know it all. What arrogance!
Are there issues in this industry,, absolutely there is. But leaps an bounds are being made and millions of dollars being spent in addressing these issue. What is it with you all,, do you think we are all just a bunch of idiot drunken fools out here with no regard for our environment.
Yes indeed. Drunk with $$$ signs. The environment comes a big second to your lust for $$$ and your care and consideration for what the next generations across the world are going to inherit amounts to an absolute zero!
I am a fishermen and hunter and outdoor enthusiast extreme I doubt very little on here spend as much time out there as I do. I am a 3rd generation Albertan and outdoorsman do you not think I give a damn ?? Yes it hurts to see some of what is going on,, I am one of those that is losing his hunting and fishing grounds,, the heck with the Indians,, most of these Indian bands that are crying the most have not lived off the land for generations now, most of them wouldn't know the head from the butt of a moose yet they get the attention..
A disrespectful, xenophobic and racist attitude !. You views expressed here are shameful but typical of an Alberta oil sands red neck such as yourself.
Yes it hurts but I live in the real world and sometimes we have to give,, there has to be a certain amount of loss to have gain. We are humans, we need the things we need and to get those things we leave a mark it cant be helped. What we can do is our damn best to ensure that mark is minimal. I insist on it, my bosses insist on it my company and all of them insist on it.
Ah but the world you live in is one where you and the industry gets all the gain, and everyone else, including the generations to come get all the loss. Your attitude to the First Nations exposes your bankrupt moral stance on this one.
I really feel sorry for you people I do, and that's the Gods honest truth, as frustrated as I get with you all I do feel sorry for you. I just really wonder what BC has planned.. I have said it on here before,, personally I don't care if the pipeline goes through and I truly think it should be BC's choice if it goes through on their ground,, I can respect that. A line will go through someplace, Alberta will get its oil out to market. But what I cant stand is the useless, un informed blabber about an industry you all obviously know very little about.
I feel very sorry for ignorant people like you. I really do. You get your indoctrination from the oil, companies, your “science” from Ezra Levant, your current affairs and news from sunnews network, and then spew this useless uninformed, unthinking rubbish back at us and have the incredible arrogance to call us “uninformed”. This from a guy who has undoubtedly never read a scientific paper or climate change paper in the published literature in his life!!
I will continue to post links and information for those more enlightened to learning. For those of you with your head in the sand,, continue on as you were. Don't worry Alberta will keep growing, your kids will continue to leave home and come here to work.
I (and others) will continue to post links to the real truth about oil sands, climate change, and the devastating economic, cultural and environmental effects this is already having and will continue to have on Canadians and the world. Don’t worry, for those that have their head in the sand like Walleyes, even arrogant Albertans cannot avoid the consequences of their actions and climate change is coming that will make the High River floods seem like a spray from a garden hose.
Just wondering,, what is the BC advantage ? welfare or a plane ticket to Alberta or Sask.. As far as our short falls in public infrastructure,, there is no doubt this is an issue here, it concerns us all but really guys,, you are blaming the oil industry because our useless left wing government over spends its budget. How can you blame the industry for that. If you have a spending problem you don't just throw more money at it,, you quit spending and put the money where it belongs.
You clearly have not read the GLG posts about how the successively more rabid arch-conservatives in Alberta have given away all the royalties and revenues to the oil companies (and eventually to China). That money has been stolen from the people and the future and those who are not shareholders are paying now and will pay in the future. It is nothing to do with a left wing government overspending it is all about a “strip and ship” industry who have hijacked the government policies so they can best rob ordinary Canadians as fast as possible. It is exploitation NOT development.
That's a governing issue not an industry issue. These companies are huge contributors to our communities,, huge,, most give millions a year out to the communities they work in.
Now you are trying to make us laugh. The oil companies are benign and benevolent social charities. I must have missed that!!
