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And have any of these folks in canada who have received this cash reported it to the CRA, or their local welfare office or disability office? Time to send up the names.
I am wondering Kate, did we win any FOSSIL awards in Warsaw where liz may went to vent on canada’s environmental issues while she ignores other counttries?
The more FOSSILS that supplies us with properity through oil, imo, deserves many many awards.
BTW, how did liz may manage to get to Warsaw without using oil?
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/nelson-mandela-hero-of-south-africa-dies-at-95-1.1576465
OT, Nelson Mandela has died at 95.
I would like to see every service station in North America carry bumper stickers stating: “I support Fracking and New Pipelines”. Anyone refusing to take one and put it on their vehicle would be refused service. It would be for their own good as it would be trying to keep them honest and from being hypocrites.
Do you think our Canadian rent a thug (native) protesters are ripping themselves away from their big screen TVs to save the ground water?. No, they are getting paid by the big American lobby groups..
Unable to perform the necessities of life, yet still able to all get in the bus at the same time.. Stay together for a few hours blocking traffic and holding up signs they haven’t even bothered to read.. As if that’s not enough, they then have to get back on the bus to complete their leftist day trip..
More fun than the zoo and it pays too..
Saw that woman on TV. She grew up in Commie Poland and as such, knows the score. She knows whatof she speaks.
Yeah $500 is a huge amount of money. That easily matches the massive amount of money oil and gas interests are spending on lobbyist.
And incidentally, was Ezra working for free when he was a tobacco lobbyist?
Thinking here, if they just put up a sign like that at each gas station, there should be immediately less waste gasses.
The assumption is that the green fascists would stay away and walk.
Unfortunately the Aussies walked away with the Fossil Awards.
Exactly. Those who have lived under the Marxist yoke, or have family that has, know precisely what the dangers are.
It is high time the government took away the phoney charitable status of these political/economic front groups.
There’s surely a single protester protester solely collecting $500.
People need affordable energy for such frivolous extravagances as heat and transportation. The fact that lobbyists are even required are a symptom of how far off the rails western civilization has gone. You and your fellow travelers should have been airdropped over Cuba 40 years ago.
Yes Ezra Levant, the prolifically published outspoken lawyer, was undoubtedly misrepresenting himself as a concerned citizen while in their employ.
This is not about Marxism, but rather these dupes are being paid this money by front organizations for powerful energy interests that want to maintain their grip on the energy market.
Perhaps…..but Marxists are drawn to such things. I also tend to believe that the foot dragging on XL has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with the U.S. skirting NAFTA.
Not dupes, Ken. Call them what they are: enviro-whores. They know full well the tawdry trade in which they are engaged.
People do need affordable energy. I agree 100%.
But the far right has so lost its mind that it actually opposes conservation of any kind. They object to any sort of government research that would help find new, sustainable forms of energy. And they object to any kind of regulation that would force industry to invest in greener technology. THAT’s the point here. They’re not opposing expenditure of energy, merely excessive consumption.
And yes. Ezra took money in exchange for his lobbying services. That is irrefutable, making his little opening speech total h0rsesh!t.
Your comment is foolish. The “far right” as you put it (which really means you are on the far left) absolutely does NOT oppose conservation of any kind. It opposes conservation that doesn’t make any sense. The kind of conservation that makes people FEEL good, but which does nothing in terms of conservation or in fact, makes it even worse.
And having government “force industry to invest in greener technology” is nothing more than a shift of taxpayer money from one industy to another. Another government picking “winners”….as if THAT works. The corruption in the “green energy industry” is horrendous.
Good God man, you really do need to get your head out of your butt.
Here is a great quote from Frederic Bastiat in The Law….
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? The organizers maintain that society, when left undirected, rushes headlong to its inevitable destruction because the instincts of the people are so perverse. The legislators claim to stop this suicidal course and to give it a saner direction. Apparently, then, the legislators and the organizers have received from Heaven an intelligence and virtue that place them beyond and above mankind; if so, let them show their titles to this superiority.”
Dude. Have you read this blog?
Of course the far left is totally rational. Right John? What an asinine comment.
I am not against conservation or new forms of energy production. I am not for paying 60 to 80 cents per kwH for solar and wind power and then having the gov’t charging 6 to 8 cents to purchasers for that energy. You see John….according to math….that is a loss of anywhere from 52 to 72 cents per kwH which a couple of weekends ago for Ontario was a cost of about 10 million dollars that we, Ontario taxpayers, wound up paying.
It is sad that liberal/socialists such as yourself still follow the ideology that is a proven failure. But, as I have noted before on SDA your ilk will never, ever, ever, ever, ever admit that mistakes have been made by the politicians you follow. And that is simply because they will never, ever, ever, ever, ever admit to a fraudulent plan that has cost taxpayers in Ontario and beyond its borders billions – if not trillions – of dollars.
Toilet, do you even know what the f*ck yer qwacking about???
Oil co. lobbyist gets the co what it wants, protestors impede the way to getting what they want, ‘cept that all that protesting causes to price to rise, and guess what Toilet, the damn profit margin increases, poor oil companies!!
Toilet, I would call you stupid, butt that would be insulting stupid ppl!!!
My name isn’t “Dude”, Comrade. Take a hike. Your comment is the typical swill that pours out of ecofascists. Thanks for identifying yourself.
Sporty….I found your comment “amusing” in that you seemed to be of the belief that fools like John have the first clue about economics. He doesn’t understand that economics is the study of how individuals, governments, firms and nations make choices on allocating scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited wants. Leftists don’t understand the concept of “scarce resources” instead believing totally in their “unlimited wants”.
if I remember right there is only one gas field in New Brunswick as it is Tertiary and long time depleted. good luck finding gas there to anyone , at least it will be priced 70 cents higher than western gas. I think Syd is a heating oil salesman with a market to protect.
The soviets had sustainable green energy policies for 7 decades. The people froze and starved, two or three families to a 600 square foot apartment, and using a communal kitchens and bathrooms down the hall.
A significant number of people seem to want a return to that. All in the name of wealth redistribution, etc, etc.
No doubt this time they will get it right.
An excellent point: “…, dude”, or worse, “Hey, dude…” is the ubiquitous bravado put-down from the very sloppy-minded left, which they use to try to equalize their manifest lack of forethought, and implicitly self-acknowledged inferiority, when confronted by a superior argument. What they are saying, without actually being able to, you know, articulate the precepts or implied social proof, is this: “you are uncool”, whatever that means. No point in getting angry about it; just recognize what you’re dealing with when you are forced to suffer such an encounter, which I’m sure you do.
On the other hand, IMO, “comrade” is a bit passe: the left has long ago eschewed the explicit tenets of communism, state or otherwise (?), in favour of the “marketplace”. Which is why we have all the talk about so-called “market mechanisms”, which distort, like “cap and trade” (which was an idea that had it’s genesis, if I’m not mistaken, in the Queen’s University economics department, around actually noxious air emissions) and “carbon taxes”.
Hydraulic fracturing is a common completion procedure in almost all new wells. Problems are exceedingly rare with new wells because the casing is inspected and tested before the hydraulic fracturing is done.
Of course you never hear about that. Problems with hydraulic fracturing occur when it’s done to old wells with deteriorated casing. The alarmist media fail to make that very important distinction. It doesn’t fit their agenda.
Hydraulic fracturing is like air travel, you only hear about the crashes, not the millions of take-offs and landings with no incident.
People who believe everything they see in the ‘news’ is normal, have a very distorted view of reality.
Joey, thanks for posting that quote from Frederic Bastiat which is quite profound. What it shows is the extreme arrogance of statists assuming that they are different, superior species than the unwashed peasantry. It’s the best justification for the US constitutional form of government that I’ve seen, but don’t expect any statist to believe that they are merely human. In fact, it might be a worthwhile test to record a persons galvanic skin responses on hearing this particular text to determine if they’re dictator material or not.
It’s a delusion of watermelons that those who are for development are anti-nature. What watermelons don’t seem to realize is that people who are wealthy have the means to preserve nature whereas a person who’s close to starvation will have no qualms about killing and eating the last member of a species. Deforestation in primitive countries is widespread because of the lack of fuel for cooking fires; in advanced countries we use hydrocarbon fuels or electricity and thus far more nature is preserved.
What I would expect to happen once tunneling machinery has become sufficiently advanced is for large scale industrial complexes to be placed underground with a completely natural environment above what is a huge factory with only a few buildings above ground marking where entrances and exits are located. Similarly, once high pressure resistant buildings are cheap and easy to make, much industry will move to the floor of the ocean again leaving unspoiled nature on the land surfaces.
To get to this stage of development requires a much higher level of technology than we currently possess. Technology, for watermelons, is evil yet none of them seem to be in any hurry to give up their iPhones or computers which are instantiations of that “evil” technology. A very highly developed technology utilizing energy densities unheard of today would likely take the form of a garden planet in which all of the industrial and energy producing portions were hidden underground or on the bottom of the ocean.
The other thing about watermelons is that they see humans as something uniquely evil whereas the accretions of human technology are no different than the constructions of corals. Coral reefs span vast areas of ocean (such as the Great Barrier Reef) and are viewed as an integral part of nature whereas the products of homo sapiens are viewed as a blight upon Gaia. Human cities are equivalent to coral reefs in that they are the products of organisms interacting with their environment. I’d be curious to ascertain how many people would make this connection if they were shown a picture of the extent of the Great Barrier Reef and a large human construction on the same scale. By the logic of the watermelons, we should be nuking the corals that have dared to despoil the environment off the coast of Australia.
In keeping with the analogy to coral reefs, watermelons are equivalent to destructive organisms which result in the destruction of coral reefs. Considering that watermelons consider this to be a bad thing, they should do what is logical; namely engaging in self-apoptosis.
frac, short for hydro fracturing. the more energy we have the better. the fewer politicians that have a say the better.