56 Replies to ““Panel calls for protecting world’s largest forest””
I’d offer only a little tie-in to the “On Closed Embassies, the Worldwide Travel Alert, and Wimpitude” post, and Keystone XL.
I am not able to form a view on the timing of the “Closed Embassies” announcement (I hear what Kate is saying, but what if it all really is time dependant?). Regardless, I do question the timing of the item that is the subject of this post, coming as it does, hard on the heels of Mr. Obama’s very strange comments on Keystone XL last week, with which Mr. Harper felt the need to publicly disagree. None of any of the public statements mentioned can possibly be good.
I mean really, if the decision on Keystone XL is to be based entirely on supposed “environmental” considerations, as Mr. Obama more or less explicitly stated, it seems to me an odd sort of coincidence that an environmentalistic “report” demanding that the Canadian “boreal forest”, whose area might happen to cover the, you know, “tar sands”, be protected “before oil, gas, mining and lumber companies develop areas and extract natural resources…”, just happens to come out at about the same time. What a perfect argument!: “I can’t approve Keystone XL because I have to save Canadians from themselves, and thereby help to heal the planet…”
And in light of the “Closed Embassies”, et al., business, the timing of Mr. Obama’s Keystone XL comments is part of the strangeness: if it’s, in fact, an impending class A-1 terrorist plot emanating from the, er, Arabian peninsula, “uncovered” as claimed by US “intelligence”, I’m thinkin’ that Mr. Obama knew about it before he made his comments on Keystone XL. So, why would he make the comments he did? He’s not for leverage (as GWB would say)?: what better leverage could you have against Arabian-peninsula-based terrorism than saying to Arabian peninsula governments that you are going to switch oil suppliers?
Worry.
LC Bennett “Actually I believe there is a market for more Eco-tourism in Canada.”
Easy money? How about 24 hour gambling, booze, and prostitution. While you’re whipping up a batch of granola bars, I will be a billionaire. I wonder if Canada does 1/10 of 1% in eco-tourism that Las Vegas does. I forgot, we’re all going to get rich in new green industry. Silly me!
Yeah well…this brings up one of my favourite words….
jökulhlaup
Occam, as usual you take personal insult to new levels. It’s good that we don’t have many people like you around here who jump to unfounded conclusions to further their personal agenda. How does that sort of rudeness work in the real world when you’re not hiding behind a keyboard, or did you get slapped upside the head enough times that now you only do it from the safety of your computer.
Have a nice day
Funny you should mention that “terror” flap.
Reports I have received are that traffic US bound is unimpeded…but returning/Canada bound is dreadfully slow.
Sorta the opposite one would expect….unless the yanks are looking hard for somebody leaving….
Not a very perceptive fella, are you scar? Expanding the ecotourism industry does not preclude other tourist business. Being a libertarian I am not opposed to legalized gambling, drugs and prostitution. But you might want to cut back a bit on your recreational drugs if you think I’m a tree hugging granola cruncher. Canada should exploit all of its business opportunities and tell the the enviro-nannies to scold the real environmental villains of the world.
I’d offer only a little tie-in to the “On Closed Embassies, the Worldwide Travel Alert, and Wimpitude” post, and Keystone XL.
I am not able to form a view on the timing of the “Closed Embassies” announcement (I hear what Kate is saying, but what if it all really is time dependant?). Regardless, I do question the timing of the item that is the subject of this post, coming as it does, hard on the heels of Mr. Obama’s very strange comments on Keystone XL last week, with which Mr. Harper felt the need to publicly disagree. None of any of the public statements mentioned can possibly be good.
I mean really, if the decision on Keystone XL is to be based entirely on supposed “environmental” considerations, as Mr. Obama more or less explicitly stated, it seems to me an odd sort of coincidence that an environmentalistic “report” demanding that the Canadian “boreal forest”, whose area might happen to cover the, you know, “tar sands”, be protected “before oil, gas, mining and lumber companies develop areas and extract natural resources…”, just happens to come out at about the same time. What a perfect argument!: “I can’t approve Keystone XL because I have to save Canadians from themselves, and thereby help to heal the planet…”
And in light of the “Closed Embassies”, et al., business, the timing of Mr. Obama’s Keystone XL comments is part of the strangeness: if it’s, in fact, an impending class A-1 terrorist plot emanating from the, er, Arabian peninsula, “uncovered” as claimed by US “intelligence”, I’m thinkin’ that Mr. Obama knew about it before he made his comments on Keystone XL. So, why would he make the comments he did? He’s not for leverage (as GWB would say)?: what better leverage could you have against Arabian-peninsula-based terrorism than saying to Arabian peninsula governments that you are going to switch oil suppliers?
Worry.
LC Bennett “Actually I believe there is a market for more Eco-tourism in Canada.”
Easy money? How about 24 hour gambling, booze, and prostitution. While you’re whipping up a batch of granola bars, I will be a billionaire. I wonder if Canada does 1/10 of 1% in eco-tourism that Las Vegas does. I forgot, we’re all going to get rich in new green industry. Silly me!
Yeah well…this brings up one of my favourite words….
jökulhlaup
Occam, as usual you take personal insult to new levels. It’s good that we don’t have many people like you around here who jump to unfounded conclusions to further their personal agenda. How does that sort of rudeness work in the real world when you’re not hiding behind a keyboard, or did you get slapped upside the head enough times that now you only do it from the safety of your computer.
Have a nice day
Funny you should mention that “terror” flap.
Reports I have received are that traffic US bound is unimpeded…but returning/Canada bound is dreadfully slow.
Sorta the opposite one would expect….unless the yanks are looking hard for somebody leaving….
Not a very perceptive fella, are you scar? Expanding the ecotourism industry does not preclude other tourist business. Being a libertarian I am not opposed to legalized gambling, drugs and prostitution. But you might want to cut back a bit on your recreational drugs if you think I’m a tree hugging granola cruncher. Canada should exploit all of its business opportunities and tell the the enviro-nannies to scold the real environmental villains of the world.