Lawyer's Creating Work!

All of a sudden the oil sands are "the most destructive project on earth". Who says so? Environmental Defence. They are so stupid and behind the times that they call the oil sands, "tar sands".

"The enormous toxics problems go hand-in-hand with massive global warming pollution and the impending destruction of a boreal forest the size of Florida," the report says in its introduction.

Group spokesperson Matt Price blames Ottawa for failing to enforce federal environmental laws.

"I think there's sort of a conspiracy of silence, especially on the part of the federal government, with regards to the tar sands," Price said, "because there's an agenda to expand it dramatically over the next 10 to 15 years."

Hello Price, the oilsands are NOT man-made, they have been around for centuries, and the "tar" has been leaking into our water for as long as they have been around. Impending destruction of a boreal forest. Trees are being planted there after the oil is removed from the sand, they have a much better chance of growing there after extraction of the oil, then they did before, but hey don't let that stop the fear mongering.

Maybe this will help people understand how immense our oil reserves are (Watch the video, it's a bit cheesy but it shows how huge the oil sands really are.), but I doubt a Toronto environmental group of lawyers really cares for facts.

Never heard of Environmental Defence here in Alberta, so who has the agenda?

Environmental Defence, (Honourary Board member, David Suzuki) leads to:
Pollution Watch, which leads to:
Canadian Environmental Law Association, which leads to:
Environmental Law Centre (Alberta). Notice that some of the friends listed are, Imperial Oil and Petro Canada.

Holy, these organizations are like salmon, they keep spawning different versions of themselves.

What this comes down to, is lawyers making up projects, and fear mongering to get work. Ambulance chasers, or in this case, Environment chasers.

You know something stinks when environmentalists and lawyers join up together.