Dripping With Envy!

This article is so envy filled, it makes me sick! Supposedly us rich Albertans are not only rolling in the dough, but we are environmentally ignorant, and an international laughing stock.

Election expected to be called this week in Alberta

EDMONTON -- Alberta, rolling in dough but baking in an overheated economy, will see politicians hit the hustings this week in an election campaign expected to address what price green in a land of bounteous black oil.

Do you "Canadian Press", have any idea how hard Albertans work to keep your houses warm, and your cars supplied with gas? We have slowed down, check your facts, Saskatchewan is now booming.

The vote comes as the province's oilsands pistons fire an economic engine that has propelled Alberta down a road of unbridled and unprecedented prosperity. Provincial coffers have bulged for years with billion-dollar budget surpluses that have effectively left the province debt-free.

Hello, no mention of the 20% cuts we took in jobs to get rid of our debt? No mention of how Klein got elected even though he told us, we were going to have to tighten our belts. No mention of the billions rolling into the federal government coffers. If you had a clue, you would know that our economy has slowed in the last year, and we will feel the pain all across Canada. Good time to get rid of some parasites, like SOW groups who do nothing for real women. How can Quebec afford a $7 a day daycare program as a have not province, but Alberta can't? Why do Albertans still pay for Alberta Health Care premiums?

But opponents see weakness in Stelmach's promise to gradually cut greenhouse gas emissions to avoid, in his estimation, catastrophic job losses and shutdowns in the oilpatch. He announced last month that Alberta will not reduce carbon dioxide emissions at all for 12 years and then reduce them to just 14 per cent below the 2005 levels by mid-century.
Those figures fall well short of levels set out by the Kyoto Accord, the European Union and even the federal government to address global concerns of melting ice caps, falling lake levels and meteorological upheaval.
Britain's Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research predicts the oilsands will make up 15 per cent of Canada's total greenhouse gas output within 12 years.

Now, Britain is dictating to us? In 12 years we will make up 15% of greenhouse gas output??? So, why are we the big bad guys, who makes up the other 85%, maybe Toronto should work on smog. No mention that Alberta has more wind turbines than ALL other provinces combined, that we have reduced our emissions by 17% already, and that we plan to build a huge carbon sequestration plant.

Alberta is also drawing international scorn. Environmentalists in Washington, D.C., protested a recent Stelmach visit by wearing polar bear suits and telling him in bullhorn terms to "Go home."

Wow, 10 protestors in polar bears suits means we are drawing "international scorn"?

My only question is, what jackass wrote this biased, dripping with envy, piece of garbage? Probably someone who has never even been to Alberta. Like Dion coming here and talking about "easy money". Idiots.