Rider
It really is disappointing that people really don't understand the nature of the situation in Alberta...
Idealism, Propaganda and blatant sabotage...I don't blame you or even fault you for your opinions...
Everyone ask yourself..What would you do without fossil fuel...at least at this point in time?..It's winter here in Canada..How many homes do you think require natural gas to stay warm? During the heat of the summer...how do homes in the Southern States, let alone elsewhere else, operate their air conditioners?
Many homes in Canada use a/c as well..How many cars do you see able to function on solar power? Most of that is generated by natural gas to charge those teslas at home
How about Jane Fonda, as an individual flying around the oilsands shaking her finger..think she took a plane to get her to Canada or did she drive a tesla all that way? How about the fuel pig of a helicopter she flew around in to personally access the situation? How about that 6500 square foot home she lives in? Does she have someone follow her around with a fan during the heat the summer to keep her cool? No question, when you have wealth, you can afford the luxuries and latest in energy efficiencies." , but where does that leave the more economically challenged families to heat or cool their home against the
Elements? How about Al Gore and his hypocritical speeches? See the size if his house and the environmental footprint there? Why werent pipelines protested in the US...The US in the past 5 or so years has hurdled a number of countries and is now one of the top producer in the world...
No question we have to move in the direction to help the environment, but far too many are jumping to conclusions...
Alberta's oilsands...sit at the very surface of the earth..the oil rich sand is literally scraped off the top and processed...So people who blame river contamination often neglect the fact that oil was seeping into the rivers as it is...Remember the Beverly Hills Hillbilly..oil bubbling at the surface? The fact, that it is concentrated in a few deposits, although ugly to look at, creates a critical mass and efficiencies that make its environmental impact significantly less than conventional deposits around the globe..its contained in a small geographic area considering the resource...Think of all the
Digging that has to be done to tie in a conventional well? The world is still continuing to use oil and gas as usual...Some will continue to supply it..Canada halting production is a double whammy both for Canadian's who rely on it as a tax base as well as the world.. while enriching producers who have no environmental conscience..If Canadian energy companies, with higher environmental standards, can produce energy to world countries in a
manner that is the most environmentally friendly, and offer an option to displace supply from the pump n' dump approach in the middle east..doesn't that help the environmental cause at least a bit? Do you know how much a tanker burns to haul fuel half way around the world to the east coast of Canada to supply refineries there? It's mimd boggling!! Look it up..
BTW..Alberta just announced a
$35 million cut to education spending..(100's of teaching jobs to be lost).so while Albertan's suffer and attempt to pay our bills...Quebecer are demanding sunsidized education and child care at Alberta's expense..of the $20 billion coming out of Alberta energy coffers annually..$11-12 billion annual goes directly to Quebec..You think Alberta's rich, but the NDP just ran our province into the ground accumualtimg DEBT of over $70 billion these past 4 years...for 3.6 million people...rich huh??
It really is too bad Alberta Energy didnt do a better job of explaining the situation..
Toad
Much of the wealth that was created through energy in Alberta has evaporated...many Energycompanies trading at less than a fraction of 1% of what they were once worth...representing the retirement of many Albertans..and the federal goverment is chasing others away with its idealistic policies..See the Encana news? See the value of our homes in Calgary today..Down 15- 20% or more these past few years while Toronto and Vancouver continue to sky rocket
