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Originally Posted by Azure
Ron Paul also called for the EPA to be disbanded.
When the Department of the Interior is tasked to look after drilling permits in the Gulf, than they should be tasked to do the same thing in Alaska. Instead the EPA has been increasingly given power to shutdown drilling sites, and impose ridiculous regulations, like air permits which were obviously stupid considering the drilling site was 70 miles from the nearest town. The result is far too much red tape for companies to deal with, so they go elsewhere.
Does Canada have more regulations? The American people have been trying to pin us as a socialist paradise for years, but I don't think its true. We just have more common sense, and we don't create another Department of 'X' whenever something goes wrong.
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We have an outright ban on exploration in the pacific for no reason at all really, so far a ban on exporting oil out of the Georgia Straight or Rupert despite pleas to put in a terminal, the trouble is energy production is a producer of money, rather than jobs in most places (Shale being the exception to this)
But yes our enviromental laws are equal to if not stronger than the US, this does nothing to stop economic growth, if anything its the opposite, it stimulates high paying tertiary jobs to service the industries.
The US is constantly looking backwards to its 'glory days' when it made heavy industrial products in the Rust Belt, that work has gone to the third world and will never come back, not due to the EPA but due to the cost of labor, they have to look to Germany where highly educated wll paid union workers make up for their wages with better product from highly computorized factories with a high output and little waste.