tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post738113875030216932..comments2024-01-08T21:00:24.932-08:00Comments on The Straight Goods: Chasing an Oily Black Ghost/Alberta Ponzi SchemeGrant Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-9082062988180778112012-02-10T13:35:24.603-08:002012-02-10T13:35:24.603-08:00The vehicles that use other than gas, are far too ...The vehicles that use other than gas, are far too expensive, for the average every day working people. So is solar. Believe you me, millions of people would have, electric cars and solar energy, if the cost wasn't so outrageous.<br /><br />However, they have found acid in the ocean, right up to the shores of BC. The sea is on an overdose of Carbon Dioxide. Yet the greedy fools keep right on polluting the planet, with fossil fuels.<br /><br />The dirty tar sands oil, is the dirtiest energy on this planet. This very dirty energy is going to the dirtiest polluted country, China. Country's surrounding China complain, China's pollution, is polluting them too.<br /><br />Everyone is forced to put up with, China, Alberta, Enbridge and Harper's greed. Every one of the head honcho's, should connect up a hose from their cars exhaust pipe, and put a bag over their heads and breathe that. I wonder how long they can breathe that pollution? <br /><br />I would like to force feed them water, from a stream downhill from the tar sands. Force feed them, the deformed fish in Athabasca lake. Force feed them, the poisoned buffalo. See if they get cancer, as is happening to the F.N. people living near the tar sands. They can't even eat the fish, not the buffalo, because of the poison in them, the meat tastes just terrible, unfit to eat.<br /><br />Make sure Oliver is included in that experiment.<br /><br />Never, never, can that abomination of the tar sands, ever be cleaned up. The damage is permanent. The last Boreal Forests in North America, are being destroyed as we speak.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-83653387544866178602012-02-09T20:52:50.201-08:002012-02-09T20:52:50.201-08:00The article says: "where is the other $2.8 tr...The article says: "where is the other $2.8 trillion dollars going?"<br />Where indeed? It is going in a small measure to employment of increasingly foreign workers in Fort Mac. The rest is going in profits to the oil companies and the banks which lend them money.<br />Some countries (like Venezuela) have their own banks and repatriate much of that money. Venezuela has risen from a foreign controlled banana republic to a country with far better education and health care than they had before nationalizing their oil business. But not Canada, which is controlled by foreign companies and foreign banks in the interests of the 1 percent.<br /><br />As far as building more refineries in Alberta, we can't compete with the labour costs in China. So why try? When will we come to the point (hopefully before the entire ecosystem of the planet is destroyed) where it is recognized that continually expanding growth in the name of profit and buying plastic shit from slave factories in the East can no longer continue? My prediction is that within 20 years the climate will have grown so bad that people will actually start to take it seriously - there will be a sea change; after it is too late. <br />Let me agree with Grant and Rafe and everyone else who says that the best place to stop the destruction of BC is by stopping that pipeline for starters. We stand to benefit nothing and stand to lose everything.<br /><br />I won't go into Monsanto here but they are the other huge negative factor to continuing life as we knew it on this planet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-77659250781042720632012-02-09T14:08:23.445-08:002012-02-09T14:08:23.445-08:00"the smart meters are essential to the grid&q..."the smart meters are essential to the grid" <br /><br />The smart meters have cost us too much and the lieberals continue to bleed BC Hydro. They are only doing this so that they can charge us more and time of day charges too, to keep LNG gas factories, tarpits, and the list goes on, the real power hungry monsters, this is the "grid". It isn't going to benefit the ordinary person at all. These meters are not for the working stiff trying to raise a family. <br />The whole thing is a SHAM, total RIPOFF.<br /><br />Christy and co. bring on the election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-48962579755189809922012-02-09T11:30:00.378-08:002012-02-09T11:30:00.378-08:00Grant, this certainly gives new meaning to the old...Grant, this certainly gives new meaning to the old term from my hippy days 'negative energy'.<br />Everything is wrong with the tarpits of alberta and all related buisness,'everything'.<br />I think I can answer one question you ask...What happens to the remaining 2.8 trillion? Gone to corporate coffers of course to be used against us in the future.<br />We meaning you and me and all of us have to accept some responsibility for our gullable nature and trust that someone is doing the right thing because as it turns out we were wrong but now we know and must make it right. This foolishness all has to stop or we are doomed.<br />We are getting tired of being treated this way.<br />Just last week BC Hydro spokesperson on Global telling us "the smart meters are essential to the grid" over and over. When one digs you find there is no grid so that statement is entirely false!<br />This is the kind of manipulation that has to be stopped and we must constantly be on the lookout for, unfortunatly for us our own government has joined forces with the other side.<br />DonDon F.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-81625023897729801552012-02-09T10:51:38.550-08:002012-02-09T10:51:38.550-08:00Once the tarsands are no longer in operation, moni...Once the tarsands are no longer in operation, monitoring and cleanup will no doubt have to go on for a very long time. That needs to be factored in.Hughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-89746370520442243852012-02-09T09:40:25.582-08:002012-02-09T09:40:25.582-08:00Sorry about the late editing, sometimes I suffer f...Sorry about the late editing, sometimes I suffer from brain freeze...Spell-check, what spell check.<br /><br />I`ll try and do better, don`t let it detract from...<br /><br />'Just the facts maan"Grant Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944976348166120530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-5529403127778729172012-02-09T09:07:17.227-08:002012-02-09T09:07:17.227-08:00I wonder if Enbridge uses pipe made in China?
Che...I wonder if Enbridge uses pipe made in China?<br /><br />Cheap, crappy pipe used in their pipelines fail more often. Ironic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-11448141383653735402012-02-09T08:29:00.978-08:002012-02-09T08:29:00.978-08:00Great analysis, but I think your spellchecker has ...Great analysis, but I think your spellchecker has a language bias and is unable to print aitch let alone pronounce it.<br /><br />I fear this rhetoric may devolve if I continue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2435367521078186829.post-71514634767570767152012-02-09T06:37:02.001-08:002012-02-09T06:37:02.001-08:00I don't know who dreamed up the phrase "...I don't know who dreamed up the phrase "ethical oil" but the whole idea is a oxymoron. There is nothing "ethical" about oil from the "TAR SANDS" And in that phrase "SANDS" is the operative word.<br /><br />I know there are many people out there that have no idea what sand can do. Or they don't think about it. The short end is that it is highly corrosive.<br /><br />And don't ever think that the oil going through that pipe is "clean" or "ethical". It is full of sand and HIGHLY CORROSIVE. It will wear out any pipe it travels through at more than a hundred times the rate of refined oil.<br /><br />And if the oil were to be refined in Alberta those refineries would create far more long term jobs than allowing Asia to refine their own. <br /><br />as far as loaded oil tankers plying our waters, that is not going to happen if I can help it.Gary Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640964040603349900noreply@blogger.com