Please watch this film produced by the Council of Canadians on Canada’s (Tar Sands) Mordor.
This isn’t a Canadian issue. It’s a global catastrophe.
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Canada is the pusher and the United States is the junkie
There are very few places in the world where one would be suprised to hear of such destruction and I hadn’t thought Canada was one. Shame…shame on you Canada.
The following is quoted as an excerpt of an article published in the Edmonton Sun Feb. 20, 2009 (www.edmontonsun.com)
“Remember that infamous phrase from the 1980s? ‘Please give us another oil boom and we promise not to piss it all away next time.’ ”
“Well apparently we did piss it away and now we face a 21st century conundrum – how to rev up Canada’s economic engine again while balancing environmental concerns with fiscal practicalities.”
“Good luck, Ed Stelmach, Stephen Haprer and Barack Obama.”
How true it is for Alberta. Not only does the province find itself in a hard felt economic recession, due primarly on its dependence of the oil trade, it also faces well deserved criticism for the ecological disaster that is now laid upon the land.
Well done once again Alberta. One usually learns from past mistakes.
Koodos to the political officials and big oil companies that made it all possible.
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