[CaptainCrunch]

Right now, Climate change is a laudible goal. The bottom line is if Canada shuts down the energy industry for example, all that happens is that the American's and Saudi's and others are going to keep pumping Oil and they will merely move into our market share.


At the end of the day, at least we can control how we drill and how we mine and we can keep forcing the companies that are here doing it to research and find better ways to remove the harmful effects of what we're doing, while at the same time encouraging them to bring their dollars to Canada to take advantage of the resources we have.


Instead we're acting in a fairly punitive manner and almost treating these companies as if they are the enemy of the people.


We can't eat good intentions no matter how much hot sauce and pride we pour on it.


We're not going to stop climate change because the countries like India and China and the United States and Saudi Arabia have all put their economy in front of effective change, and no matter how much we preach and lecture on it as a country they're not going to change, that's the sad reality of it.


All they're going to do is laugh at Canada basically leaving the market and ramp up their production to take our place.


Its all nice and everything that the provinces like BC and Ontario and Quebec for example have actively moved to crush these pipelines based around a argument that oil is a evil bastard undesirable segment of the Canadian economy, but their arguments are naive and self serving politics.



If we're so concerned about climate change and the end goal is to stop being an oil producing nations, or shut down the oil sands then this country will literally shake apart economically and in terms of being a actual bound country. But its not going to change the global world view of it.



Personally we should continue to push for better ways of extraction and cleaner energy strategies and going after the market share of these other nations and that's the only way that you can force them to change. But killing the industry is going to do little to nothing.


And yes, I do believe that there is a storm coming in terms of the climate, but at the same time, its become a buzz word as we don't go after the noxious manufacturing segment in Ontario, that its ok to dump chemical and literally crap in the ocean.


We've really got our priorities and our strategy wrong here.