International attention focused on northern Alberta recently as the hearing for the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline got underway. The hearing sparked a strong defence from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and pipeline proponents, while others have used, perhaps abused, the opportunity to delay construction and promote myths about our primary resource and economic engine.
The chief culprits are not within Canada, and are not powered by ethical oil, but rather with the dirty crude of foreign money. The foreign interests libeling the oilsands prefer to use the environmentally irresponsible oil from countries where human rights are a joke. The foreign money clogging up the regulatory process is puffing up windbags who want to see Alberta's primary resource remain landlocked. The foreign interests want to keep Canada in a subservient place.
They use all sorts of rubbish to fool the uneducated into believing there is something wrong from an environmental or ethical standpoint about oilsands. The arguments defy logic, like the brainless term "tar sands," when we all know not a drop of tar is produced by oilsands.
U.S. President Barrack Obama rejected the Keystone pipeline proposal last week. The delays of the Keystone pipeline in the U.S. and the Northern Gateway pipeline are not about environmental concerns, but are about keeping on friendly trading terms with dictators and about using their oil as opposed to Canada’s.
The delays are about bulking up and enriching countries where women and workers have no rights and where environmental regulation is non-existent. The delays are an attack on the people of northeast Alberta and St. Paul and area, where we would benefit from the economic activity of increased oilsands production.
