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Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater
She said MAY have to be left in the ground, and her comments were based on scientific consensus.
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No. Science does not say how much oil should or should not be extracted. It also makes no real specific judgments as to which part of the economy must be penalized over another. As a poster mentioned, steel manufacturing is emission intensive. Oil&Gas is a convenient target in Canada, partially due to regional envy that can be exploited by a party looking to solidify a weak base in Eastern Canada, and also due to the ideological concerns of a particular individual and party.
Why penalize the industry that has employed 100s of thousands of Canadians that are skill-based and high-paying? Why not talk about the millions of Canadians who drive, buy goods made with hydrocarbons, have inefficient furnaces? At some point, climate change will have to be made the individual or family's responsibility, and not the abstract bogey man of industry or government.