It really sucks how much things are becoming like American politics up here, we're five months out from the election and I'm already sick of the ads. And it's only one way traffic right now so once the NDP and I guess whatever this new Wilder-rose party start getting into it....goddamn it.
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I can't get over the fact that the NDP appointed Tzeporah Berman as co-chair of the Oil Sands Advisory Group.
I appreciate that Notley and the NDP are taking a different stance now than they were two years ago, but talking to other people in the industry, they can't get over the idea that these aren't really stances that the NDP truly supports and instead are just trying to quash the current outrage.
I can't believe people are willing to put bumper stickers on their car in general.
why do that to your car?
How else can we know their beliefs so that we can be prejudiced against them?
Its like wearing your heart on your sleeve. We can now know which politicians they hate, which sunglasses they love, their favourite sports team, their preferred brand of bottom-shelf booze and what kind of music they like assuming that its not the Insane Clown Posse, what firearms they're likely carrying and who their co-pilot is, be it Jesus or Xenu.
Bumper stickers can tell you a lot about a person. It really helps make that decision about whether to let them in front of you or to hold your place on the road and see if they over the side of the bridge.
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In a post on his CorpEthics.org website, Michael Marx trumpeted the success of the 10-year campaign to throttle Alberta oilsands production, saying: “From the very beginning, the campaign strategy was to land-lock the tar sands so their crude could not reach the international market where it could fetch a high price per barrel. This meant national and grassroots organizing to block all proposed pipelines.”
Who is Marx? He’s the executive director of Corporate Ethics and the man who in 2008 co-ordinated two major American charitable foundations, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and The Tides Foundation, in their anti-oilsands fight. The campaign has since supplied tens of millions in U.S. dollars to groups such as Greenpeace Canada, Idle No More, Leadnow, Living Oceans Society, the Pembina Institute, the Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Fund Canada and various First Nations to battle against the oil sands.
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In a post on his CorpEthics.org website, Michael Marx trumpeted the success of the 10-year campaign to throttle Alberta oilsands production, saying: “From the very beginning, the campaign strategy was to land-lock the tar sands so their crude could not reach the international market where it could fetch a high price per barrel. This meant national and grassroots organizing to block all proposed pipelines.”
Who is Marx? He’s the executive director of Corporate Ethics and the man who in 2008 co-ordinated two major American charitable foundations, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and The Tides Foundation, in their anti-oilsands fight. The campaign has since supplied tens of millions in U.S. dollars to groups such as Greenpeace Canada, Idle No More, Leadnow, Living Oceans Society, the Pembina Institute, the Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Fund Canada and various First Nations to battle against the oil sands.
I've said this before and I'll say it again, this is Economic Terrorism and must be responded to the same way you would against a terrorist organization.
They've cost us tens of billions of dollars already, and nobody is doing #### to stop it. Shame.
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It's come to a point where I would almost be ok with building our own refinery. I'd put my tax dollars towards building it because the amount of money we are losing and have already sacrificed would probably make it a viable project.
Plus, I'd love to see the look on the feds face when they realize that we don't need Transmountain any more and they just blew 5.5 billion on it for nothing.
It's come to a point where I would almost be ok with building our own refinery. I'd put my tax dollars towards building it because the amount of money we are losing and have already sacrificed would probably make it a viable project.
Plus, I'd love to see the look on the feds face when they realize that we don't need Transmountain any more and they just blew 5.5 billion on it for nothing.
I may not be reading this right, but explain to me how building a refinery supplants the ability to sell product to international markets?
It's come to a point where I would almost be ok with building our own refinery. I'd put my tax dollars towards building it because the amount of money we are losing and have already sacrificed would probably make it a viable project.
Plus, I'd love to see the look on the feds face when they realize that we don't need Transmountain any more and they just blew 5.5 billion on it for nothing.
Yah, building a refinery here wouldn't change anything.
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I can't get over the fact that the NDP appointed Tzeporah Berman as co-chair of the Oil Sands Advisory Group.
I appreciate that Notley and the NDP are taking a different stance now than they were two years ago, but talking to other people in the industry, they can't get over the idea that these aren't really stances that the NDP truly supports and instead are just trying to quash the current outrage.
According to energy reporter Markham Hislop, Berman was appointed at the request of the CAPP.
