tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post25704578211280330..comments2024-03-28T10:07:24.955-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: When You Buy A GovernmentOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-89972438039700084532023-03-16T08:26:58.679-04:002023-03-16T08:26:58.679-04:00Lots of our so-called leaders have been brainwashe...Lots of our so-called leaders have been brainwashed by Ayn Rand, TB. They believe that selfishness is a virtue.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-1780684543164674922023-03-15T20:53:04.950-04:002023-03-15T20:53:04.950-04:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIAXG_QcQNU
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h...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIAXG_QcQNU<br /><br />or<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVCwBtFHVLo<br /><br />Sadly our first nation co dwellers of this wonderful land are no different from their successors!<br /><br />Green washing national identity washing religious belief washing politics washing!!!<br /><br />Sooner rather that later we will all be washed away!<br /><br />Why o why do not find true heroes in this world of selfishness.<br /><br />TB<br /><br />Trailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03436709163754934547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-50533037695146507032023-03-15T15:01:58.197-04:002023-03-15T15:01:58.197-04:00Everyone wants a piece of the action, zoombats.Everyone wants a piece of the action, zoombats.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-31828842772270797912023-03-15T14:06:53.672-04:002023-03-15T14:06:53.672-04:00Everyone is in on the act of pushing the industry ...Everyone is in on the act of pushing the industry despite the threat of oblivion. Even those who would argue that they are the keepers of Turtle Island. Funny how greed is blinding and knows no bounds.<br /><br />https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/3-billion-indigenous-cedar-lng-kitimat-1.6774918zoombatsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-67453377050990247482023-03-15T13:33:04.316-04:002023-03-15T13:33:04.316-04:00They've been bought, Lorne. And they know it.They've been bought, Lorne. And they know it.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-18919480328928600212023-03-15T13:31:59.157-04:002023-03-15T13:31:59.157-04:00There's big money in Big Oil, Mac. And that...There's big money in Big Oil, Mac. And that's why Big Oil isn't going away.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-80163426752444607402023-03-15T13:00:27.591-04:002023-03-15T13:00:27.591-04:00And, of course, we mustn't forget the dirty ha...And, of course, we mustn't forget the dirty hands the feds have in all of this, Owen, with their billions of dollars in subsidies and their anemic efforts to get the companies to pay to clean up their own messes.Lornehttps://politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-76530819985223846312023-03-15T12:28:18.263-04:002023-03-15T12:28:18.263-04:00I didn’t read the original article but the role of...I didn’t read the original article but the role of money in the fossil fuel I industry is still the main driver of the whole thing. Not just in Alberta or Canada but anywhere the oil is extracted, processed and ultimately used. I believe the world currently uses up about a hundred million barrels a day. That represents one huge pile of oil and most importantly money. Every day! The investors who profit from the industry, those whose employment is dependant on that industry and they are legion needless to say are very reluctant to see that whole scheme disrupted, global climate chaos be damned. The Trudeau government may say we need to cut back on on tar sands production and so on to do Canada’s part to help but the reality of the construction of the Trans. Mountain pipeline is concrete evidence that they are very aware of the importance of oil production’s critical importance to the health of the Canadian economy, Alberta even more so. We have a carbon tax but is it really helping to reduce our fossil fuel use. Not likely.<br />On the topic of climate change caused by excess CO2, I am seeing more and more a not so subtle shift from pushing major fossil fuel reduction to stem climate change to mitigation. Carbon capture, etc. on the one hand coupled with adaptation of better ways of coping with the effects of climate change seem to be the new direction in dealing with the looming disaster. The fossil fuels thereby roll along merrily and the world economies are stimulated by the spending of more dollars to construct better levees, storm drains, hurricane proof homes, better heat pumps, electric cars, stoves and so on. No real sacrifice on anyons’s part. Just print more money.<br />So fossil fuel extraction on a worldwide basis may have slowed somewhat but it is still increasing, again world wide at a time when most climate scientists warn we must reduce emissions by fifty percent NOW or were doomed. Notice too how many governments and other fossil fuel dependant industries promise drastic emissions reduction but all of it in 2050 or some other way down the road time frame. Reminds me of St. Augustine’s quote: “Give me chastity and continence, Lord but not just yet.”<br />So, as with many things, just follow the money cuz that’s really what counts in life these days. Pretty much, always has. Mac<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com