… on John Gormley Live. Bad move.
Layton claimed that not one acre of land had ever been reclaimed in the Alberta oil sands. Ever!
Not so fast, Jack.
… on John Gormley Live. Bad move.
Layton claimed that not one acre of land had ever been reclaimed in the Alberta oil sands. Ever!
Not so fast, Jack.
Maybe Jack Layton didn’t fly over some of the parts of the oilsands that have already been successfully returned to nature. Go to
http://www.syncrude.ca/users/folder.asp?FolderID=5703
and take a look at the photo library titled Environment, it sure looks more serene and welcoming than a Google image search on Toronto Danforth.
Regardless that Jack is a socialist huckster of the worst ilk, he’s strategically helping the Conservatives by positioning himself as the next leader of the opposition versus Dion.
It will erode the Liberal’s left flank.
Layton really believes he’s a Canadian Obama, and Demo-hypo-crats believe Obama is the second coming.
Dear Mr. E. Jack Layton; please explain why the cattlemen in the area of the oilsands all want to rent, for grazing purposes, the reclaimed land you moron. The land is reclaimed to a far better state with better grasses for grazing. You stinking utterly stupid Toronto fools think that paving over and concreteing every square foot of land is preferable to the reclaimed grasses and trees that the oil companys take great effort to replace, once the oilsands are removed. If anything we are helping the environment you f,ing idiot because presently the oil is, like it has for millions of years leeching into the rivers NATURALLY asshole. Jackass Layton stay in Toronto where there is so few natural plants left you clowns have no oxygen and it shows, JERK.
Personally I would like the people doing the reclamation work at Syncrude to take a look at reclaiming Toronto. It’s currently the biggest ecological disaster in Canada and I think it needs be be returned to its original pristine state before mankind disturbed the land and water. Maybe then Toronto would stop spawning disasters like Obama bin Layton.
“”””” Personally I would like the people doing the reclamation work at Syncrude to take a look at reclaiming Toronto. It’s currently the biggest ecological disaster in Canada and I think it needs be be returned to its original pristine state before mankind disturbed the land and water. Maybe then Toronto would stop spawning disasters like Obama bin Layton.””””””
and then on to otawa, and reclaim the parlament buildings, and the HRC offices:-)))
I sent that file of reclamation photos to Jack at the NDP website. Told him that I was sure he was just misinformed and now that he knows, he will be able to retract his statements and apologize to the companies that have worked hard to reclaim the land.
I expect to hear from him any moment now…….
Jack – you there Jack……yooo hooooo….
*cue crickets*
Like I said before, once Jack’s pension is secure, he’ll dissapear of the radar. And we won’t have to endure his dapper “dandy” personna attempting to seduce the electorate.
Jack LAYdown, good name for a Taliban supporter.
This is what I posted at his site.
You caught him dead to rights. This is the opening shot in the disparagement of the West to Nationalize ( Read taker over.) our resource Monies for Ontario & Quebec’s use during their economic troubles. Its Layton’s in to the lucre pie, using the Federal government to socialize all the oil Industry with its money for Eastern votes. Another NEP rape of Western Canada only it won’t just be Alberta this time. Of course Quebec Hydro & Power corp. are sacrosanct from touch. Once a Dipper always a Dipper.
Nice catch Mr. Gormley.
I love it when the politicians get a bad case of biased turrets syndrome. Than comes the remorse of the mouth from the cerebral constipation. Not a lick of sense shown by Layton trying to sell this horse pucky to the “Hinter Landers“.
JMO
jwkozak91…the NORTH side of Lake Athabasca? Look leftoid twit.It (Fort Chipaywan) is on the SOUTH side of the lake.And for your info,rivers around that area run NORTH,into the Arctic Sea.Been there,seen it,done it,and got the t-shirt.
bar whatever
As to the status of that, I have no idea. Jack’s statement is obviously very misleading, however, he is correct in saying that full reclamation of any land has not yet occurred yet.
Are you stupid? Try getting out of what little enclave you live in and go to Ft.Mac.They have the LARGEST herd of bison in North America on reclaimed land,less then 1/10 of a mile from the main Syncrude plant.Guess what?Tourists go there to see them.They provide bison to zoos and farmers around the world! If you want,you can feed them by hand(albight a little dangerous,keep your eyes open for Papa Bull)saying they have not reclaimed any land is like saying Taliban Jack likes living in TO because he and Chow-Chow can get subsidised housing on your buck.Oh wait.They did that all ready.
Re: bar_jebus at 9:49
“I think the key claim made by Jack is that there have in fact been no reclaimed lands that have been _certified_ by the Alberta government”
Even that is untrue. A reclamation certificate has been issued for a 104 hectare parcel at the Syncrude site.
However, there is often a long interval between doing the the actual reclamation work and submitting a request for a reclamation certificate. The actual reclamation rate for surface mined Oilsands leases is 13.6% based on Alberta environment numbers.
In a “study” done by the Pembina Institute (sincere apologies for having to quote anything from them), you find that the Oilsand’s companies have in fact reclaimed 6,498 hectares out of a total of 47,832 hectares which have been surface mined in the Oilsands. That represents a reclamation rate of 13.6%. These are the numbers provided by Alberta Environment to the end of 2006. The 104 (0.2%) hectare figure mentioned above represents the land area that the Oilsand companies have requested a reclamation certificate for and been granted by Alberta Environment.
See page 7 of this document http://www.oilsandswatch.org/pub/1639.
47832 hectares, that make new brunswick plenty small. layton and CBCpravda should do some fact checking.
I hear this morning Mr Layton wants to create green jobs by – you guessed it – increasing corporate taxes to level before Conservatives decreased them.
Well, of course. If you tax companies, they will go right out and hire more people. Stephane Dion agrees with him.
I had fleeting thoughts of NDP supplanting Liberals on left as opposition – then Jack Layton walked in the room and killed that idea.