James Cameron could visit oil sands: First Nations leader
Mr. Poitras said on Sunday firm plans for Cameron's visit are a long way off, but, "the sooner the better."
"I want him to see for himself and ... wherever he arrives at in terms of what the tar sands truly represent," Mr. Poitras said, adding newspapers and television don't do justice to "the size and the calibre and the footprint of the environmental impact."
Others, like Council of Canadians chairwoman Maude Barlow, have visited the oil sands and compared the development to "Mordor," a fictional land from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books.
Yes, both Poitras and Barlow are right, this natural oil spill is truly like nothing anyone has ever seen, and it should be cleaned up!
Other environmentalists agree that Avatar could have been shot at the oil sands.
As the CBC reported on March 5, a coalition of environmental groups took the allegory one step further, placing an ad in the film industry publication Variety that cast Canada’s Alberta tar sands as the real world’s unobtanium. the ad, paid for by 50 environmental groups, featured an aerial photograph of a massive oil sands site, where excavation had removed all signs of life, leaving only a huge field of brown sand dotted with man-made hills and pits. Title text labels the photo “Canada’s Avatar Sands.” for the groups who took out the ad, the bitumen (a chemical precursor to crude oil) trapped in the tar sands of northern Alberta is real-life unobtanium, and the environmental destruction it has brought to the plains and forests of Canada parallels the tragic and heartless plundering of Pandora.
Would environmentalists let the oil spilling into the ocean from the oil rig that sunk continue, without cleaning it up? NO! So should we allow oil to continue to seep into our rivers and potentially hurt the people downstream? Any dedicated environmentalist will tell you NO! Any oil spill must be cleaned up. Now, just because it was Mother Nature that produced the spill, is no reason to not clean it up.
Proudly, Albertans are embarking on cleaning up the biggest natural oil spill that has ever been seen on earth! We are taking sand saturated in oil and extracting that messy oil from the sand so that it will not continue to seep into our rivers, as it has been doing for thousands of years.
Look closely at that picture, nothing can grow in that oil seeped sand, but the environmentalists will not tell you that, it would distort their message. Try an experiment, take some sand, and some oil, put them in a container and then plant some seeds, any seeds, (try grass or dill) and see if anything grows. Right, I thought not.
What bothers me is that the First Nations people are playing both sides of the fence to feather their nests, and they still want us to think they are the victims. The oil companies pay them royally, then the First Nations turn around and sue them to get more money, and the environmental groups support them with more money. It's quite a racket, but it is legal. So why are our First Nations people still living in poverty? Who is taking all the royalty money? It's a mystery.
Try going to some of the companies sites to see what they are doing to be environmentally friendly and support aboriginals. Do not only listen to those shrill eco-nuts, they have done more harm with their campaigns against DDT, killing millions of Africans from malaria, to corn for eco-fuel, starving millions of people in third world countries. These are the people we should listen to? WHY?
So, Cameron, come on down, and tell us how we should clean up the biggest oil spill this world has ever seen.
8 comments:
The socialists, Liberals in Toronto, Montreal are free to buy their oil from countries that don't have democracies.
Don't allow rule of law, free speech, freedom of assembly, gender equality, a free press.
Strange bedfellows of the left.
James Cameron has nothing else better to do? No better projects to set his sights on? He and the environmentalists should take a flying leap into another constellation...and bother them for a change.
I took my mean pills today.
Good point! Another arrow in my quiver. Thank you.
Cameron is just working on his sequel. There is nothing we could teach this man.
The boreal forests are toast even if nothing is done! Climate change is going to do away with all the Boreal forests in Canada! Ontario have looked into alternate crops to their forests!
The tar sands are the only thing that kept Canada away from a deep, dark and damming depression this last turn around. Had it not been for the tar sands most people in Canada would not be able to afford movie tickets!
Canadians need James Cameron visiting the tar sands as much as we needed Brigitte Bardot and Paul McCartney visiting the seal hunt.
I wish Hollywood celebrities would STFU about the people and projects that keep THEM living in such high style.
I haven't seen "Avatar" and will wait until I can get a free copy,or live without seeing it at all, rather than put money in the pocket of another sanctimonious SOB.
DMorris
Great post, Hunter. Excellent points. I had never looked at it that way before.
Story at JNW regarding how they are building underground domes to try to catch all that oil spilled recently. Too bad they can't laud Alberta and the oil companies for spending billions to trap all the natural oil spill (by mother nature). Why is trying to stop pollution in one area different than trying to avoid seepage into Alberta rivers and streams.
your views on this topic are really interesting and give a clear cut view. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
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