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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
To a degree and from the lens of an oil and gas worker, is it that hard to empathize / understand why people may hold this view?
Further, is it even wrong?
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Seriously Mr.Coffee this is part of the problem, you seem to only ever look at it through that lens.
Would you seriously argue that in this province oil and gas workers are having a worse time right now than people who have been working in the renewable energy sector that the UCP just pulled the plug on? And that the people who bought and built a pipeline at a ridiculously high cost that will earn billions of dollars for O&G are out to get that industry?
Stop buying the propaganda. Yes there are some policies that need to be fixed to help our oil and gas industry thrive as the important economic driver for our country that it is but at the end of the day the oil and gas industry has the financial resources to publicly campaign against pretty much anything that affects their bottom line. So they do, regardless of whether or not the legislation is sensible or detrimental to other industries or workers in general and for some reason a lot of people just believe everything they tell them.
I can empathize with O&G workers who have had a much rougher go lately than they did during the boom times without agreeing that they’ve somehow been treated worse than anyone else. They don’t deserve to be caught up in the crossfire and neither do people working in other industries.