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But are they numerous and does anyone care what they think? Suzuki has been beating a powerful drum for more than a decade now and that basically had zero impact on the most recent oil boom in Alberta.
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I'm not a huge fan of David Suzuki, but in my professional dealings with the man, and his foundation, I would say that he has a great deal more integrity than the current crop of protesters. He also understands politics, and the need to make alliances across the ideological spectrum. He has just enough of the Old Left in him that he implicitly gets that the oil & gas industry is all that is left to prop up the economic futures of the lower-middle class in Canada.
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Poor public outreach and education campaigns by oil and pipelilne companies?
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Nah, willful ignorance of the public and demagoguery by energy industry opponents.