CTV Hating The Oil Sands, Who Could Have Guessed?

CTV reported that Whooping Cranes fly through the oilsands. Get that? The oilsands are on their flight plan to the protected Wood Buffalo National Park. Not that they land in the tailings ponds, or that they have been found to get killed by briefly landing near the oilsands development. They publish a one sided article that fear mongers the fact that they fly by the oilsands.

EDMONTON — Environmentalists are concerned the Alberta government isn't doing enough to protect whooping cranes from oilsands development, as new data shows the iconic endangered species continues to migrate through the increasingly industrialized region.
"Whooping cranes need to be given their due consideration and we haven't seen that to date," said Peter Lee of Global Forest Watch, which issued a new report Sunday that combined information on the birds' migration paths with the location of oilsands facilities.

Bad, bad oilsands, as usual. Can anyone find an article from the CTV that is positive about the oilsands? Thought not.

What really shows their biased reporting is the fact that they NEVER mention the fact that Whooping Cranes are in even greater peril because of all the wind farms that are directly in their flight path. They were either too lazy to research the article properly, or they just plain hate the oilsands and want to fear monger.

"We would hate to see any collisions with whooping cranes," said Laurie Jodziewicz, the association's manager of siting policy. "It would be very distressing for everybody."
But Jodziewicz said the wind industry will continue to grow in the crane's migration corridor and should not be subject to regulations that don't apply to other industries.
Industry reluctant to change
"It's a very windy area," she said. "We certainly want to work toward minimizing impacts, but there is a real driver behind wind energy, which is the need for clean, renewable electricity.

Aren't wind turbines known as bird choppers? Funny how when it is wind turbines, environmentalists are fine with whooping cranes flying into the chopping blades, and further developing the wind turbines, but when it comes to whooping cranes "flying over" the oilsands, hysteria ensues.

Shame on CTV for providing such a unbalanced article, fawning over everything eco-weenies say, without checking facts. Okay CTV, we understand that you hate anything from Alberta, especially us Conservatives, but that was a really lame and poorly researched article. I want to see an article that praises how the oilsands are driving the Canadian economy, and therefore providing jobs for all who dare to come here, to Conservative Alberta.

Ducks, Foie Gras, Wind Turbine Chopped, Or Oil Soaked?

How come the only ducks landing in tailings ponds are in the Alberta oilsands? Could it be that the mining companies just don't report it? Nah, they would if they saw them landing, they just never actually see it happen.

This is one of the best articles I have seen yet on the whole ducks in tailings ponds issue.

Birds migrate, and for a long time humans have been constructing things that our avian friends smash into. Electrical power lines are estimated to account for 150 million bird deaths a year in the United States. A further 50 million or so are thought to be killed by smacking into telecommunications towers for services such as cellphones and digital television. Both those figures, incidentally, are provided by the American Wind Energy Association, which itself is combating accusations that wind turbines are unnecessary bird killers — the “Cuisinarts of the sky” are accused of being responsible for about 75,000 avian deaths in the United States annually.
And sometimes, birds don’t slam into things humans have built, we slam into them. Another 60 to 80 million deaths annually are attributed to collisions with cars and trucks on North American roads.
Yet another of Canada’s most notorious bird killers is located a long way from the oil sands. The skyscrapers of downtown Toronto, especially those with the temerity to leave their lights on at night, are giant, deadly obstacles to migrating birds. There are even legions of volunteers who collect the deceased — and sometimes, the wounded — small birds that are scattered about the sidewalks of the financial district any given morning. It’s thought that about a million such birds rattle off the glass of the silent killers such as First Canadian Place each year. National Post writer Joe O’Connor spent a morning with a cleanup crew last spring, where volunteers recounted how high winds and low clouds had turned the downtown core into a veritable killing field of American Redstarts, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and the like. They counted as many as 300 dead birds, or about as many as died on the Mildred Lake tailings pond this week, thus earning Syncrude the wrath of every politician within reach of a microphone.

I am totally disgusted with Prentice, he is a pretty boy, but he is no Conservative. He should be quoting from the above article. He should be defending the oilsands. Even Ignatieff shows more support for the engine of Canada than Prentice. Maybe Prentice should quit eating Foie Gras, look at what they do to these poor ducks:

Foie gras is produced by force-feeding ducks and geese through metal pipes inserted down their throats, swelling the animals’ livers five to ten times their normal size. Dr. Ward Stone, the former senior wildlife pathologist for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, has conducted necropsies on ducks who died during force-feeding and writes, “The short tortured lives of ducks raised for foie gras is well outside the norm of farm practice. Having seen the pathology that occurs from foie gras production, I strongly recommend that this process be outlawed.”

Freezing rain causes some ducks to fall into the tailings ponds and this is a disaster? I agree that we need to get rid of the tailings ponds, maybe bury it underground, like carbon capture, but give me a break, they are ducks not humans. Let's hold the wind turbine companies to the same standards.  Let's hold the mining companies to the same standards. Let's stop hunter's from shooting those ducks every year. I don't even want to talk about the thousands of human beings being killed every year in tribal wars, that's taboo! They are UN ignored kills.

It appears that some ducks, matter more than humans.

The Eco-God!

First there was global cooling, and when that didn't happen the Eco-God frowned. Then we got global warming, and when that didn't happen the Eco-God got mad and told his subjects to get it right! The eco-weenies thought and thought and thought, and came up with climate change, and then the Eco-God was content. Eco-God knew that climate change is always happening, so Eco-God was happy.

Eco-God sent his apostles across the globe to spread the gospel of eco-cap and trade. Eco-God wanted the transfer of money from the eco-rich to the eco-poor. Gore and Suzuki called for the jailing of "deniers", those heretics that would not believe in man made global warming, and the Eco-God smiled down on them as they counted their eco-money.

Then the apostles were caught making stuff up to support their cause, and they went into hiding. They listened to the Eco-God when they were in their caves, and obeyed his orders to create "shock and awe" to wake up the non-believers. Blowing up school children is okay by the Eco-God, as long as the message gets across to people.

Make stuff up, scare people and make sure that you get the money says Eco-God! And the Eco-soldiers march in lock step towards their end.

Global cooling they shout:

  No, we mean global warming:

Eco-God frowned down on his subjects, and thundered the command to scare people with a harmless substance, something that was common to all the worlds people, and the eco-weenies came up with CO2! This was a devil created substance that plants took in and exchanged for oxygen. Too much CO2 would be a bad thing, the zombies cried. Eco-God was happy, mega bucks for a free substance, what a perfect scam!

The apostles shout that too much CO2 will be dangerous, except that it has been documented that CO2 encourages plant growth:

Too little CO2 will starve the world of oxygen and reduce lush plant areas to this:

Eco-God is hungry and demands that his followers obey his dictates. Money for a false God is demanded. Track the money and Eco-God gets exposed as a crass, false god, with no morals and only wants to rob from the productive to give to the unproductive.

If Syncrude has to pay 3 million for 1600 ducks, then the eco-companies who put up the huge wind turbines must pay for dead birds as well. According to one poster:

What a laugh 

October 23rd 2010, 1:15am

Grant provides the number of animals killed by windmills etc every year (22,464.) Syncrude is paying $1875 per duck. 22,464 x 1875 = $42,120,000. Thats 42 million to Mr. Mike Hudema of Greenpeace. Only makes sense since they like to hit people in their pocketbooks. What's good for the goose... Hope that doesn't cut into your protest budget for China and Saudi Arabia Mr. Hudema... What a laugh.

Greenpeace owes us 42 million for all the dead birds those wind turbines have killed in one year. The courts have now set it into law. Someone needs to sue the green companies for all those deaths! I hope Prentice is on those folks. I am so sick of being beaten over the head day in and day out by a group of juvenile university preppies who think they know it all and have nothing better to do than chain themselves to trees to make their point. Let them stay chained to those trees, bowing down to Eco-God, I am busy making a living for my family. I refuse to go make my kids go back into caves!

Eco-God can take an eco-friendly leap off the nearest cliff, maybe all that CO2 will break his fall!

If It's Good For The Ducks.....

It's good for the bats! Right? If 500 ducks killed in a tailing pond means $800,000 in fines, what about those wind turbines that are killing bats at an alarming rate? Shouldn't they be charged as well, or don't bats matter in the eco-system?



Let's also not forget those birds of prey. They keep down the mice and rabbits but they are being sliced and diced by those eco-friendly wind turbines. That's okay because those towering monstrosities are cleaner than nuclear power, or so they tell us.

Wind turbines taking toll on birds of prey
By John Ritter, USA TODAY
ALTAMONT PASS, Calif. — The big turbines that stretch for miles along these rolling, grassy hills have churned out clean, renewable electricity for two decades in one of the nation's first big wind-power projects.

But for just as long, massive fiberglass blades on the more than 4,000 windmills have been chopping up tens of thousands of birds that fly into them, including golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, burrowing owls and other raptors.

Do eco-nuts ever actually THINK before they act, or is that not a requirement of being a greenie? They want eco-fuels which leads to more people starving. Then they want more wind turbines which leads to more birds and bats dying. Then they try to save some birds by removing all the cats from an island, just to have the mice and rabbit populations explode, threatening the very birds they wanted to save. Then they talk about saving the polar bears by relocating them to Antarctica, which would kill off the penguins.

They are doing this to our planet without any proof that greenhouse gasses are even a problem. There is proof that bats are dying, there is proof that people are dying from malaria, but there is no proof that the earth is warming.

Fear is their motto, because they are like spoiled little children who have never grown up. They spike trees so they don't get cut down and then fly all over the world to protest against CO2, a naturally occurring substance, that plants and humans need for life. They buy phony carbon credits to salve their guilt. Why are they guilty? They are guilty because they are living, and this bothers them.

Nuclear power is a big no-no for them, why? They associate it with "war", and therefore it must be bad. The eco-nuts are just the long ago hippies dressed up in a new skin, called global warming. They listen to washed up politicians and bug guys who are busy lining their pockets with carbon credit money and living the high life.

If "dirty oil" companies have to pay for 500 ducks, then why don't "clean wind turbine" companies have to pay for thousands of birds? Double standards show that the eco-nuts are just that, nuts. Maybe we should start recruiting squirrels to pluck those nuts off their spiked trees and store them for the next long cold Canadian winter.