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Originally Posted by GGG
There is a difference between Anti - Oil and good climate policy. His messaging is anti oil. Anti oil is an Anti labour position.
I think talking about positively funding green projects while making tax revenues off of oil would be a much better approach.
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Agreed. We need to maximize the resource we have while it is viable to do so, and use the fruits of that to aid the transition into climate-friendly initiatives. Guys like Avi would have us shut down oil tomorrow if he could will it into being. Avi should join the Greens.
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Just looking at the tweet from Avi:
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The relentless increase in Oil and Gas production in Canada has already cancelled out all GHG reductions in all other sectors and made us a climate pariah in the G7.
And there's no business case for another oil pipeline to tidewater - that's why the Big Oil subsidiary known as the AB UCP government has to front this.
The time is past for showering any more public money on the most profitable industry in history, and we need to move our economy beyond oil and gas urgently - the planet is on fire, it’s still in our lungs from this past smoke season.
Let's roll out renewables and storage with wartime scale and urgency instead.
And let's take care of fossil fuel workers while we do it - no way a single worker should pay for this.
In fact, the oil industry keeps showing us that they're happy to increase production while shedding their workforce.
Why would we keep rewarding that behaviour?
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There is nothing in there about "shutting down oil tomorrow". The argument is that zero new public dollars should be invested oil. I agree with that and it kinda sounds like you guys are saying the same.
The punchline is that Oil and gas should be filling the public coffers, not draining them. The public sector should be investing in transformative or diversifying industries, not propping up existing industry.
He even calls out that fossil fuel workers need to be taken care of in the transition. Considering the thousands and thousands of people being laid off in Alberta by Oil companies over the last couple of years, this would be a welcoming message to have a government help people who are being abandoned by their companies after years or decades of faithful work.
I do not see much difference between his tweet and the posts from you two.
