65 Replies to “Oh, Frack!”

  1. Wonderful. Love the poster. Another SDA classic.
    The author of that “left-wing Canadian Press” scare piece certainly infused a Dickensian flavour into his writing, didn’t he?

  2. NIMBY on steroids….
    Brought by the very same elements who invented “second-hand smoke”…..who now have a well polished, successful polical/media formula which was the basis of the flimsy CO2 AGW scam which refuses to die even though thoroughly discredited….Coco-Cola shamelessly has a save the poley bears campaign in the face of verified data showing these allegedly endangered critters are thriving.
    That community in Pennsylvania has always had NG in the ground water…much like Lambton County, near Sarnia, Ontariario. There water wells are always drilled a safe distance from buildings and specially designed pumphouses over them do not explode but instead flip up and reseal to keep frost and critters out. IOW…they live with it…..ever since rural electrification brought electric pumps.

  3. We don’t want none of that funny stuff going on ’round here! You westerners can take your ways and head elsewhere! But don’t forget to keep sending us your cheques!

  4. It’s sure as hell going to be the “have nots” that will be opposed to having that industry in town. Why wouldn’t they? They’ve already got a large and seemingly never ending teat to suck on. Why work? Especially when you can do it in the name of “Save the Planet” (and pass the welfare cheques.)

  6. It’s called a money tree /Christmas tree to Albertans, to Maritimers it is called the welfare tree, who are the dumb ones, too bad Kweeebec takes the most as the money from the christmas trees rolls east you dummies, we make it, you take it, but we still have our work ethic and sharing ethic and pride, you welfare bums.

  7. I lived in PEI for a few years in the mid-1980’s. The locals were against any sort of industry other than farming, fishing, tourists and UI (now EI). At the same time they would beef how Toronto had better schools, roads, hospitals etc. It was pointless suggesting the pastoral life they wanted had a flip side: LOWER MATERIAL WEALTH!
    They refused to recognize the trade off between a slower paced, gentle way of life and lack of cash to buy the roads, schools, medical facilities, winter vacations in Florida and a new car every three years.

  8. If Albertans had the same attitude of these fools they would probably sending a piece of their paycheque west to Alberta. We actually like our kids to have jobs. If people aspire to welfare cheques all the more power to them but please don’t ask me to subsidize fools who prefer the stone age.

  9. Canada has an abundance of water as well as massive reserves of oil and gas trapped in rock. Water can be used to extract the oil and gas which then creates wealth. Canada also has an abundance of losers who want to wallow in the self pity of perpetual welfare. It will take more than water and wealth to free these trapped minds who have surrendered their personage to the welfare state. They will seize on even the flimsiest argument or the most flagrant exaggeration to remain safe and comfortable in their servitude to the state.

  12. If these people are not living an Amish lifestyle and growing all their food, then they’re nothing more than hypocrites.

  13. I suggest we do a controlled experiment: first poll the population on the E. coast about fracking and then cut off all transfer payments and UIC to the same population. Poll them again a year later and see if they still have the same “environmental” concerns.
    The normal response to someone who’s had a large amount of natural gas or oil discovered on ones property would be one of jubilation and thoughts of what to do with the royalty money. Obviously this group of Canadians has been over-subsidized by the federal government and its time to put a stop to it.


  14. “Most of the drilling fluids stay where they’re intended to be, but it doesn’t always work that way,” Summers says.

    Summers says.
    –
    The entire article is about what Summers says-
    Summers says this and Summers says that.
    Summers is a carpenter and probably has a degree in watching television..

  15. They still sell pick ups in eastern Canada with buggy whips. If the manufacturers don’t include a buggy whip with every vehicle they get confused and upset. These people are proof that fish is not brain food…

  18. Come on, it’s Nova Scotia, currently headed by an NDP government.
    Fracking? Not on their watch.
    But they approve of trucking biomass to a new government approved burn site to produce electricity, even though it puts more carbon per kilowatt in the atmosphere than any other source.
    But they can give grants and business breaks to Windmill developers, which never get paid back.
    But they can increase the price of electricity so high that our largest paper and lumber mills close, putting thousands permanently out of work.
    All of those are currently happening, but give it 100 years, Fracking will be commonplace, the coal mines will reopen, offshore oil and gas exploration and development will flourish, Methyl Hydrates (fireice) will be recovered from offshore.
    None of that will happen until the locals realize that all the promises of “sustainable development” are about as useful as unicorn farts and that they really don’t want to spend their lives sitting in the dark and cold.

  19. This is prime example of the poverty that grips the mindset of many Nova Scotians. It’s difficult to live here at times.

  20. Decades of depending on welfare payments, of excuse me, Transfer Payments does that to people.
    Make them feel like they are entitled to their entitlements.
    Rots the mind, corrodes the will, bends the backbone.
    Just like junkies.

  21. Q
    “The comment sections on SDA seem to be becoming a haven for a contemptuous ideology. Not good.”
    Contemptuous? Remember to send a big chunk of your paycheck to alcohol and drug addicted relatives who refuse to work. It doesn’t make everyone feel as satisfied as you. Contempt? Maybe not, but certainly a lot of head shaking.

  22. You know, we always make comments about the “grievance industry” and their antics in connection with all manner of Lefty causes. The thing to remember is, it really is an -industry-. They’ve got to keep their shop busy, right?
    This is a typical example of those Grievance Industry tycoons shifting their focus now that one of their older scams has folded. Global Warming is toast, the “water emergency” scam is fizzling, they are losing the anti-pipeline battle at every level, “Alternative Energy Jobs” are evaporating like butter under a blowtorch.
    Gotta keep your people fed. Gotta crack that nut for office payroll every month. What are you going to do?
    Go after anything industrial that involves chemicals. Groundwork has already been laid, FUD is already written for you from dozens of other campaigns. Just add the word “fracking” and you’re away to the races.
    I think that this time it might FINALLY be the time we should fight SMART. Smart fighting is not going out and arguing with this Ken Summers a-hole. That’s the dumb way to fight, its pig wrestling. All we get out of it is dirty and tired, and the pig loves it.
    No, what we as a social movement called Conservatives need to do is find out who’s paying Ken Summers. Find out where they got that money. Follow it until we find the Big Boys and attack -THEM-. No OWS BS, just get around behind the sonsabeeatches and hit ’em in the WALLET.
    Our whole f-ing civilization runs on hydrocarbon fuel, and the supply of that basic underpinning is under attack. Find the real attacker and impoverish him. Break his money tree.
    Suggestions on how to do that will be welcome. Lets stop fooling around with the sparring and just kick ’em in the b@lls.

  23. @ Q, a totally uninformed biased article like this CTV article deserves nothing but contempt.

  24. If I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again…
    ‘The comment sections on SDA seem to be becoming a haven of contemptuous ideology.’
    I guess you will Q
    The first time was ‘Not Good’ enough??

  25. Good suggestion Phantom.
    Between sasquatch and The Phantom they have explained neatly how the system functions these days.
    For starters, it would be great if the Krause lady in BC could find the smoking gun 3rd party financial backer behind Vancouver’s mayor and environmental groups opposing the Gateway and Keystone pipelines.

  26. Once again the leftists are against something that could pull them up by their boot straps and make some cash. As long as the loot heads east from the west no sense in trying to do something logical and create some wealth. Stay out of my pockets and leave my cash alone.

  27. Knacker has the solution…unfortunately here in AB we have a watermelon premier who makes red Ed look like a small c conservative. WRP/Danielle gets my vote!

  29. If Albertans thought like this, they’d still live in teepees, they’d not even build soddies. Not all Maritimers think (fink?) like this, but enough do. I was reading about ancient Greece under Roman rule; authors [Strabo and Pausanias]wrote “there used to be cities, but now there’s only ruins, where nobody lives.” Future Maritimes? How soon?

  31. If we need to go after the guys funding this, perhaps we should start by identifying who isn’t funding but is involved…..the useful idiots. These are the folks they use for cover.

  32. Equalization — I’m all for it. Let’s have equal pay for work of equal value — no work, no pay. While we’re at it let’s have equalization of input. Contribute nothing, get nothing. Don’t want oil and gas produced anywhere? Fine, don’t put it into your furnace or car. Hitch up the horses and get what you get.

  34. Actually the source of the money has been established…
    Tides Canada….which disperses the funds through a network of NGOs..
    Tides Canada is financed by a clutch of Soros funded US NGOs.
    Soros is the anti-Christ.
    When Newfies tell “mainlander jokes”, they don’t mean Queerback or Ontariario……

  35. I have no problem with the Atlantic provinces and Quebec self limiting their NatGas production. There is already a glut of NG in North America. The recipients of dividend$ from Encana and Crescent Point can only benefit from lower production outside of western Canada. 😉

  36. Oh I think that the RH PM Harper will be taking steps over the next few years to ‘deal’ with equalization. Specifically including renewable resources’ revenues in determining the provincial revenue calculations.
    Will throw Quebec and BC and Manitoba into the much higher revenue bracket and push down the calculations regarding who should be getting equalization and at what amounts.
    Ontario though will just get poorer…what a shame.

  37. Imagine if equalization payments worked like u.i. and adjisted the payments down based on available work in the area. So if your privince has unexploited resource revenue then the equalization payments are lowered.

  38. If environmentalists are experts at anything it’s knowing how to push people’s fear buttons. Business needs to do a better job of getting the facts out and also be willing to alleviate landowners fears. Governments need to grow a backbone.
    When a power plant I worked at was built near the Sask/US border there were similar concerns about well water. As a result there were 200+ ground and surface water sampling points installed and regularly tested over the years. To be fair, there was well depletion and quality issues due to mine de-watering. Farmers would get new drinking water wells and/or treatment systems. Over time , as people became more comfortable, sampling points were retired.
    IMO, once people (landowners not Greens) are given the facts and are able to have their concerns taken seriously all but the crankiest are reasonable.

  39. “I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.”
    ~Stephen Harper
    And they got their panties in a wad when he told them the truth.
    These people need to pay their own freight or starve.

  40. I live in Vancouver where a major casino wanted to expand promising many more millions of dollars to the city in taxes, gaming revenues etc. The casino also promised to hire a certain percentage from the downtown eastside(so called poorest postal code in Canada). The leftwing city council turned it down amid intense pressure from most of the “do-gooder” socialist groups in the city.At the same time they need more money for homeless shelters etc. As I own a business I get lots of calls from organizations looking for donations for various projects. I always ask them what their stance on expanded gambling was. When the answer invariably comes out that they were against it I suggest that they obviously don’t need the money because they turned it down so don’t come to me looking for money.

  42. Who was the genius who came up with the word: FRACKING. Say it. Sound it out. It’s gotta be bad. Fooking awful word FRACKING. Look at the last 5 letters.
    Clearly, there was a potential job for a young out of work liberal college grad: the invention of nice warm language and cool graphics to more favourably represent the benign high tech process.
    GM (genetically modified) was another genius term which hadda be bad. See how close it is to FGM.
    Yeah, all the way through the piece the carpenter “Summers says”. Yunno like “Palestinian witnesses”. Is perhaps the good carpenter Summers evocative or early Christianity.

  45. IMO, once people (landowners not Greens) are given the facts and are able to have their concerns taken seriously all but the crankiest are reasonable.
    Sask Power, as an organ of the gov’t, does what they want. If you don’t give it, they take it. So long as one goes along with that, it’s “reasonable”.
    Oh well, they made more taxpayer funded jobs rolling up barbwire and demolishing buildings after the area was flooded. Yeah, that’s “reasonable”…
    So far as going after the back room boys, keep on trying to kill that snake by cutting off the tail…

  46. As for BC being one of the ‘contributors’ to equalization, don’t count on it.
    Christy! is running the province at a huge deficit, and will continue to do so. She is, and always has been, a BIG-L Liberal, so debt knows no bounds to support, and enlarge the nanny state. And if the Dippers defeat her, which is very likely, they will continue and enlarge the Nanny State mentality.
    We are so fekked in BC, what used to be a very prosperous and efficient province, is looking more and more like Kalifornicatia.

  47. I grew up in NS, moved to AB 35 years ago, and might retire in NS. The people I left behind wouldn’t be able to handle an active oil and gas industry. There is no infra-structure, or business base. There would need to be a mass migration of workers and equipment, and the benefits to locals would be minimal. There would be an appearance of wealth, and a short term bustle of activity. If the shale gas play is anything like Alberta’s, it’ll peter out in less than 10 years, just enough time to fool a generation of local kids into thinking they don’t need to worry about their future. I won’t even get into the environmental aspect, because there are more important issues to address.

  48. The people I left behind wouldn’t be able to handle an active oil and gas industry. There is no infra-structure, or business base.
    Oh no, no more oil and gas activity in isolated places in the north…

  49. coach: What your are saying is there is no desire to work, just a desire to hold their hand out for easy money?

  50. The Maritimes are fracked. The logic out here sometimes makes me want to shake some sense into some heads. As mentionmed earlier, my power bill is going up 9% tomorrow, I have no choice in electrical providor, the province is still throwing “research” money at windmills and tidal projects, natural gas from Sable Island is flowing through Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to the US and the NDP raised our HST as soon as they got in power.
    Nine health districts for just over a million people and they complain that healthcare costs too much and how dare the feds tie the healthcare welfare… err payments to the GDP. As to trying to keep healthcare costs down, it’s a joke. My brother has to travel an hour each way, two days a week for his chemo treatments. In the new year he will have to make the trip three times per week because it is more “efficient” to see the doctor on a separate day than to combine doctor/first chemo round as is the case now. This is the same healthcare district that has glee clubs, special programs for BLGT or whatever sexual orientation employees and marches during pride week. And they avow that they are patient orientated.
    The province is throwing money into a paper plant that went bankrupt in hopes of getting a buyer (with tax incentives I imagine) while the only other paper mill is cutting back and on the brink of folding.Yet folks don’t see that the writing is on the wall: The pulp and paper industry can no longer be profitable anymore than opening up a steel plant in Cape Breton can be a moneymaker.
    Heating a home here will cost you a fortune as there is no natural gas residential distribution system but Halifax has an outdoor ice skating oval, wants to build a new convention centre, an arena, stadium and anything else they can’t afford without copious amounts of tax dollars. Gasoline prices are regulated so there is no competition. The list goes on.
    These are the same folks that have had their hand out for longer than I’ve been alive yet all I hear is how they sent fish to the prairies in the dirty thirties. I think that debt has been paid off, eh. I honestly think that the only maritimers with gumption are the ones who have left the have-nots to work out west. I wish some of them would come back and instill some of that work ethic back here.
    Vent over. On the other hand, I’d like to wish Kate and the SDA out there a Happy New Year.

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