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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
I'm trying to figure out what your end goal in this is.
Murray Edwards is an investor in Imperial Metals. He doesn't run the company, nor does he work for it in any way, he just writes the cheques hoping to get a return on investment. How can you genuinely blame him for the disaster?
How should the NHL hold an owner accountable for making an investment in a company that caused a disaster?
As said, he is one of the biggest players in the oil sands, so why stop supporting him now? The oil sands have done significantly more damage than this, so why now? What is different? Are the oil sands not a problem because they aren't your backyard?
Will you also be writing letters to Kicking Horse Resort? Nakiska? Fernie Alpine? The University of Saskatchewan?
I'm not trying to degrade the point you're trying to make, I just want to understand:
Why now? And why take it out on the Flames?
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When I first posted, I didn't have an end goal in mind. I was upset and confused.
I guess my goal is to have the business I support (NHL) know that it makes it difficult for me to support them when the actions/investments of their ownership group negatively impact me and the place where I live, where we all live.
It doesn't make sense for me to write a university I've never been too, or a mountain I've never skied. The reason that I feel I can write the NHL is because I'm a consumer of their product, and I believe they care about their consumers.
I know Murray Edwards, despite being the controlling shareholder of the mine in question, is not the only person to blame. You can trust that I certainly didn't vote for the current government in power, one that was heavily financed by Edwards' many corporations. You can be sure that my political engagement will further increase following this disaster. I know there are a whole host of inspectors, engineers, lobbyists, bureaucrats who all contributed knowingly or unknowingly to the breach. Many heads will roll by the time the final report is written.
The reason I want to write the Flames and the league is because I want to know that they care about about the same things as me. That my support of their enterprise requires their support of the environment. I want them to know that the things their ownership does affect me and my ability to support them. Maybe it will spark an uptick in environmentalism within the league, maybe it will do nothing, but I think that is my goal presently.
I hope it's ok to say I'm still not 100% percent sure how all the pieces fit or how to make the most positive impact in the wake of a negative event. I just need to do something.