Canada faces NAFTA complaint over oil sands
In the latest move in a long-running campaign to highlight the impact of oil sands development, the submission by Environmental Defence Canada, Natural Resources Defense Council and three citizens charges that toxic tailings ponds are being allowed to leak and contaminate ground water.
So, Canadian environmental groups are trying to get NAFTA to shut down the oil sands. Where do they get their money? Take a look:
Industry Canada and Public Works Canada.....that's our tax dollars being used to sue the Canadian government. Also notice TD Friends of the environment. Want to see the board of directors?
That Suzuki guy gets around now doesn't he! Environmental Defence's Annual Report is interesting in that they provide no details about how they spent the money.
Wow! How did they increase their revenues so quickly? I don't know, their annual report is more of a propaganda report than it is a financial report. How do they get away with that? Can we send Sheila Fraser in to audit them? They did get federal money, so she should be allowed to determine how they used it.
Cut off the money NOW! If the City of Toronto wants to give them money, fine, but they should get NO federal tax dollars. If they keep up their attacks against the economic engine of Canada, they just might get their wish. I would love to shut down the oil sands for as long as it takes to make both eastern Canada and the US lefties to scream uncle. It would be payback for Trudeau and the NEP.
Maybe Environmental Defence should worry about the pollution of Toronto, all those smog alerts can't be good, but living in Alberta I couldn't tell you because we have never had a smog alert. So who are the polluters? You know all those people, six million isn't it, all crammed into one small area in Toronto, the pollution from that many people is a huge problem. Maybe Environmental Defence could look into that, oh and while they are at it, maybe they could pressure McGuinty to close down Nanticook, which spews more pollution than all of the oil sands development. I guess econuts don't sh*t in their own houses. How about they go to China and protest all the polluting coal plants they are building. Right, I thought not, they love communists and hate Canada, why else would they sue Canada with taxpayer funds?
I want to know how big the grants are from Industry Canada and Public Works, and who authorized it. Cut Environmental Defence's grants TODAY!
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I still remember when I first moved from Guelph (near Toronto) to Vancouver. When I smelled the air, the odour was strange. There wasn't any smog! The air in Toronto is poison.
Better shut down that Iceland volcano. Much more globull warming in that one, and "man made" at that eh?
The answer to this kind of environmental nonsense is quite simple although the implementation will be difficult and complicated.
1. CN Rail claims that with about a year's work on track upgrades and with the existing capacity of their rolling stock they will be able to deliver one million barrels per day of oil to the west coast at a rate below that of pipelines. Since their right of way is already established they will avoid the problems with native bands and the environmental issues associated with installing a new pipeline. (This will not, of course, stop the environmentalists from howling and stamping their feet.)
2. Then comes the hard part. Secede from the Canadian Confederation. This will rid us of the myriad of international treaties that allow radical environmental groups to stall and delay any project related to oil. It will also relieve Alberta of the financial burden of funding the socialist governments in the east. The federal government takes more in taxes from the oil industry than does Alberta so these huge sums will be repatriated for the benefit of Albertans. Alberta would be able to sign its own treatise with the international community without having to consider the wishes of the east or the radical environmentalists.
Difficult? You bet; but Albertans have handled difficulties before. As a separate country we would have to negotiate right-of-way with British Columbia for the transit of petroleum. But since, I am sure, they would levy a tariff on every barrel of oil transported through their province they would gain a huge tax windfall not to mention the jobs and tax revenue generated from maintaining the tracks, running the trains, and the construction and operation of new port facilities to handle the traffic. I am sure this can be negotiated quite easily since the denial of right-of-way would only lead to a tit-for-tat retaliation on the part of Alberta for any CN traffic...or road traffic for that matter...passing through to the coast. Requiring all rail and road freight to detour through the U.S. would add considerable cost to the price of all goods being imported into B.C. The possibility of Saskatchewan joining us so they don't carry the burden of supporting the east is quite high as is the possibility of B.C., which considers the federal government as basically irrelevant, coming along.
The natural resources contained in these three provinces are products that the world is clamouring for and for the residents of these provinces to be held captive to the wishes of the voting power of Eastern Canada...a voting block that shares little of the values of the west...is insane.
The federal government is increasingly falling under the sway of the nut-case environmentalists with people like Jim Prentice looking to impose onerous regulations on our primary industry (not to mention the U.S. and its hell-bent rush to calamity)and it's long past the time when we have to genuflect in the direction of Toronto and Ottawa for permission to set the rules for our own well being.
The radical environmentalists, through their incessant attacks on the oil sands, may yet grant me my wish.
Early Friday joke for you:
Darker side of women
A woman was in town on a shopping trip. She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third, everything had just been reduced by 50 percent when her mobile phone rang.
It was a female doctor notifying her that her husband had just been in a terrible car accident and was in critical condition and in the ICU. The woman told the doctor to inform her husband where she was and that she'd be there as soon as possible.
As she hung up she realized she was leaving what was shaping up to be her best day ever in the boutiques. She decided to get in a couple of more shops before heading to the hospital. She ended up shopping the rest of the morning, finishing her trip with a cup of coffee and a beautiful chocolate cake slice, compliments of the last shop.
She was jubilant.
Then she remembered her husband. Feeling guilty, she dashed to the hospital. She saw the doctor in the corridor and asked about her husband's condition. The lady doctor glared at her and shouted, 'You went ahead and finished your shopping trip, didn't you! I hope you're proud of yourself! While you were out for the past four hours enjoying yourself in town, your husband has been languishing in the Intensive Care Unit! It's just as well you went ahead and finished, because it will more than likely be the last shopping trip you ever take! For the rest of his life he will require round-the-clock care. And he will now be your career!'
The woman was feeling so guilty, she broke down and sobbed.
The lady doctor then chuckled and said, 'I'm just pulling your leg. He's dead. Show me what you bought.’
Speaking of rail, I'd love to know why our highways are end-to-end semi-trailers and we have rail cars sitting empty? I don't know why we no longer piggyback. Semi-trailers chew up highways, requiring re-paving (petroleum), use up gobs of diesel (petroleum), and cause traffic jams (lots of idling petroleum-burning cars).
I used to love road trips but now stick to back highways if possible to avoid all the semi-trailers. Oh, but a Green Tax on Everything would surely have solved that problem. Yeah, right. Gotta love these tree-hugging environmentally unsound chicken littles.
You can include TD and Summa Consulting. (Funny that...)
I did some digging earlier.
http://www.environmentaldefence.ca/who/partnerships.htm
I missed the TD reference.
Did you notice
The Green industry is a self funding network (like the Borg)
http://www.trilliumfoundation.org/User/Docs/PDFs/HarvestEN.pdf
Very interesting CanadianSense! So, they pass the money from organization to organization, keeping it all in the family. Sort of like the IPCC peer reviews itself.
Hunter, now that Wayne Easter is suggesting that the PM was too hard on Helena, you should collect some video of the Liberal caucus demanding her resignation. Maybe even title the post "Liberal Girls Gone Wild" or "Liberal MPs Gone Wild".
Just an idea. You are much better with video than I am.
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