Compare and Contrast, Charities!

I think that the Suzuki Foundation should be unlisted as a charity. There is nothing charitable about that organization.

In the spirit of Christmas, we all give more, so I ask you to compare and contrast these two, tell me who you would give your hard earned money to:

Rolling Dog Farm

Help me help the Rolling Dog Farm win a $25,000 donation from Mozilla. The charity that raises the most for the Mozilla campaign will win.

This was a project that my dad cared deeply about and he passed that passion on to me. Please help these animals. Throw them a bone.
The Rolling Dog Farm in northern New Hampshire rescues and shelters disabled animals. Every animal who arrives at the Rolling Dog Farm gets another chance to have a safe and loving home. Their residents include blind dogs, blind horses, deaf dogs, blind cats, and animals with other neurological and orthopedic disabilities.

 

 These are real people, helping real animals without squawking daily about how much their cause helps animals. True heroes. 

Next up, PETA:

Silk Production Causes Painful Death for Insects
The so-called “silkworm” is actually a domesticated insect who, in nature, goes through the same stages of metamorphosis—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—that all moths do.(5) Silk is derived from the cocoons of larvae, so most of the insects raised by the industry don’t live past the pupa stage, as they are steamed or gassed alive in their cocoons.(6) Approximately 3,000 silkworms are killed to make every pound of silk.(7)

Funny how PETA thinks it's painful for insects to die in the pupa stage. I wonder if they think that aborting a human baby in the "pupa" stage is painful too?  Just asking!

Oh, by the way, your WOOL coat, made from renewable growth by sheep, is also BAD. What do these guys recommend? 

This season, cross coats made with wool and down off your shopping list, and opt for items created with synthetic materials, recycled fibers, and soft cotton instead. Whether you're looking for polished or practical, you can find a cruelty-free look you love right here:

This jacket is perfect for daytime errands and lazy weekends. Add a pair of bright mittens, a scarf, and a hat for extra warmth.

WARNING. Do not click on any of the images on PETA's site because they lead you to companies trying to sell you something. PETA is all about marketing "ideas" and nothing about actually saving any animal. Notice that they are selling "synthetic materials"? Hey PETA, that means nasty oilsands products! Are they so dumb they don't know what "synthetic" means?

Synthetic Fibers are made from synthesized polymers or small molecules. The compounds that are used to make these fibers come from raw materials such as petroleum based chemicals or petrochemicals.

So, I ask you, where would your money go? Rolling Dog Farm or PETA? 

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.

Alberta Needs To Revolt Against All Leeches!

We are stuck with a useless Premier at a time when we need a Ralph Klein back to protect Alberta from federal MP's bent on stopping oilsands development. These opposition MP's are not investigating the impact of flooding lands for hydro development because that would tick Quebec off. The environmental groups aren't being funded to stop mining in Ontario and Quebec but they are getting millions from Americans to "demarket" the oilsands. It makes me wonder why all opposition parties voted to stop tanker traffic in northern BC. We know they are supported by the unions, feminists and special interest groups like the environmentalists. Who else is influencing those MP's?

I starting reading the Hansard because of a post by Just Right. Some interesting testimony by some interesting parties, but the opposition is deaf to anything that does not support their own biased thinking.

According to my analysis and preliminary calculations, over the past ten years American foundations have spent approximately $300 million on conservation initiatives in Canada and the so-called reform of our resource-based industries—forestry, mining, aquaculture, and oil and gas. About $50 million of that went straight to first nations, especially on the coast of British Columbia, including, for example, one grant for $27.3 million. That was a single grant.

    Roughly 80% of that $209 million came from five foundations: the Hewlett Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. These are the foundations I have referred to as “The Big Five”. They have $22 billion in assets. They give away $1.2 billion every year. Their CEOs earn $600,000 to $700,000 a year. Their senior environmental staff are paid in the $300,000 range. Some of these professional environmentalists are paid more than the Prime Minister of our country.

 Read the whole thing, it's very enlightening. No wonder the environmentalists are screaming so loudly, the Americans are paying them to do it. More proof that the "global warming" scam is all about money and not the environment.

The fight is not over, and businesses are seeing the advantage of the "global warming" scam. They want in on the whole mess because they see the ability to tax the consumer while making it seem that they are helping to save the world.  A prime example is RBC.

Canada’s biggest bank has unveiled stronger environmental and social risk management policies.
The policy changes by Royal Bank of Canada come just weeks after Canada gave its official support to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Rainforest Action Network said the changes are a clear signal that RBC is standing up for aboriginal rights and stepping away from oil sands projects.
The group, along with First Nations and other shareholders, has spent two years campaigning against RBC and other Canadian banks that provide financing and business services to energy companies that operate in Alberta’s oil sands.

I say boycott the Royal Bank of Canada until they divest themselves of ALL their investments in the oilsands, this applies to ALL unions, like the Ontario Teachers Union, and all Quebec unions.

You can claim anything you want, but don't take us for fools. We understand perfectly that you are talking out of both sides of your mouth at one time, just like the First Nations who are getting American money to protest the oil pipelines, as they negotiate with the provinces to get huge royalties from those same oil pipelines.

Alberta needs to revolt against all these leeches. They want more taxes from the profitable businesses while taking money from American "charities" who want more control of the development of OUR resources.  Wake up Alberta, enough is enough!

Bad Opposition! Into The Dog House You Go!

Western Separation just got a huge boost today, thanks to our lefty opposition.  Can they get any dumber? Let's go all econutty to gain some lefty votes.....oh wait...they already have all the lefty votes, so let's pander to our lefty, green, immature voters and forget about the economic future of Canada. Iggy comes to Alberta and mouths platitudes about supporting the oilsands, then turns around and tries to destroy the industry with a sneaky vote on banning oil tankers. Does he think we are stupid? Okay, rhetorical question. 

OTTAWA — The opposition has stepped up its pressure on the Harper government to ban oil-tanker traffic off the B.C. coast, passing a motion in the House of Commons calling on the Conservatives to legislate a formal moratorium.
The opposition parties teamed up Tuesday to pass a motion introduced by New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen urging the government to immediately propose legislation to “ban bulk oil tanker traffic” through the Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound, off the north coast of British Columbia.

Long live the coalition! Does Vancouver get oil tanker traffic? 

He says tanker traffic in Vancouver has grown with the Americans’ desire to acquire secure sources after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
Vancouver responded with new regulations that allowed bigger ships into the harbour and stepped-up safety measures.
Ships now use global positioning devices, double-bottomed hulls, guiding tugs, enhanced pilot training and navigational aids.
They carry crude oil from Alberta, a thicker, heavier liquid which doesn’t evaporate, sinks to the bottom and is difficult to clean up.
The huge ships are about one-third the size of the biggest vessels previously afloat, with a 700,000 barrel carrying capacity.
The tankers must navigate two shallow channels — at the First Narrows and Second Narrows.
The margins are so tight that they can’t be fully loaded because if they were, they wouldn’t clear the seabed. The only time there is enough water is at high tide.

Well, well, it appears that Vancouver has no problem with oil tankers, now anyone wonder why they would be upset with some competition from Kitimat? To the environmental groups (with Soros money) who are joining the First Nations groups to try and get the pipeline from Alberta to BC banned, CN already has lines all the way to the coast and oil containers as well. If BC doesn't want the jobs, so be it. We will just keep sending our oil into the US so they can have all the jobs that BC needs. 

What the opposition did with this vote was to give the Conservatives more ammo. They clearly showed the coalition is alive and as stupid as ever, and they showed that they do not care about the economy of Canada or Canadian workers. They know the the Senate is going to kill this bill, so they are being hypocrites. 

If they were really concerned about oil tankers, they should have voted to stop them from docking in Vancouver, and they should have set the same rules for the east coast....what's that I hear...The Irvings would never agree? Tisk tisk, the opposition are oil whores, for the Irvings that is.

Ding Dong, Avon Calling!

Avon is jumping on the ban oilsands band wagon. Let's see how long it takes them to jump back off. Email Avon Canada, "the company for women", and let them know what you think of their environmental program.

Avon avoiding Alberta oil

American cosmetics giant Avon has announced it will avoid using fuel derived from the oilsands to distribute its products.
Vice-president Tod Arbogast says they've asked their transportation partners to avoid high-impact, high-carbon fuels such as those from the tarsands.

Here is a sample of what I emailed them:

I am trying to be environmentally friendly, and would like to purchase products within the 100 kilometer limit. I am wondering if you produce any of your products near Edmonton?
I purchase my oil within the 100 kilometer limit that environmentalists impose on us, where do you purchase your oil? As a self proclaimed "company for women" you wouldn't be purchasing your oil from Saudi Arabia would you? You do know that they don't even let women drive there don't you? Not to mention honour killings and stoning of women, please don't tell me that you purchase "blood" oil!

I guess they think CO2, a harmless substance that plants convert into oxygen, is more important than women being oppressed. They are now on my boycott list, and I will tell all my workmates about their callous disregard for woman's rights. Maybe they should rethink their boycott of Alberta oilsands oil, and then I can rethink my boycott of their products. Oh, forget it, the damage is done, just like I will never again shop at Gap, or Bed, Bath and Beyond, I will never buy their product again.

Aaron Sanger of ForestEthics, which is co-ordinating and helping implement the anti-oilsands campaign, says the companies are calling into question the social licence of oilsands fuel.

We need to use the econuts (very few of them are actually environmentalists) weapons against them, and hold companies that jump into the eco-madness before they think to account. Hey ForestEthics, how much is Soros paying you? Tell those companies who want to boycott the oilsands that you are respecting the 100 kilometer limit and therefore their products can not be purchased. Tell the econuts that they should not be traveling thousands of miles to Cancun for a two week vacation, they are breaking their own 100 mile rule. Start making them accountable for their own actions.

An Alberta business lobby group, called the Alberta Enterprise Group, is now calling for a boycott of Avon products in response to the company's announcement.

I like this group, they are standing up to the econuts, and calling out the companies that think they will get brownie points for being "green". Start using the power of the purse to stop those companies who want to hold you to account, while they produce their products in polluting China. How hypocritical of them!

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.

USA....Pick Up Your Speaker In Canada!

"We just have to pass the Healthcare Bill to see what's in it." - Nancy Pelosi (Quoted March, 2010)

''Life's tough .. it's even tougher if you're stupid.'' - John Wayne
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It appears that the Democrats already think they have invaded Canada! They do not think our oil is "foreign". Well I hate to disagree, but, Canada is a sovereign nation, and therefore our oil is "foreign" to the USA. We are happy to share it, for a price, but it is not yours. As a matter of fact, it's not even Canada's (remember the NEP?), it's Alberta's!

Alberta oil not 'foreign,' U.S. official tells premiers

One of the most powerful politicians in the U.S. said that while Washington wants to wean itself off foreign oil, Canada is the exception because it isn't "foreign," according to Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach.

The comments came as U.S Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi met with politicians, environmentalists and First Nations leaders in Calgary.

"She didn't consider Canada to be foreign oil," Stelmach said Thursday, noting that the politicians also spoke about his province's efforts in renewable energy during their dinner meeting on Wednesday.

So US Democrats feel they can dictate to us how we sell our oil? Environmentalists think they can dictate how we sell our oil? Easterners (McGuinty and Charest) think they can dictate to us how we sell our oil, even though they don't buy it? How about Albertan's sell their own oil, to whomever they want to, like China and India, if the US is unhappy with our "dirty" oil? How would Pelosi like to explain to the American people that 20% of the oil they need has become unavailable because Alberta doesn't want to sell their "dirty" oil to the USA anymore? Can you say $8.00 a gallon gas Nancy?

You don't want our "dirty" oil? Go buy "blood" oil from the Middle East and continue to support terrorism. Oh, and did anyone ask you about the environmental disaster that is happening in the Gulf right now? Did the environmental groups ask you about that? Funny how quiet the greenies have been about that little spill. You would suspect that because far left Obama is in power that the econuts are happy and that's why they are so quiet. What has happened to protests against "dirty" coal? Hello greenies, your prejudices are showing!

Politicians are still talking "global warming", econuts are still talking "climate change", with straight faces. HA!

One of those groups is Environmental Defence, whose executive director Rick Smith took issue with Stelmach's characterization of the oilsands.

Smith said the U.S. has never threatened to cut off Canadian oil imports, and he said that Stelmach was creating a "straw man" to distract from the real issues of pollution and climate change.

Hey Smith you ever seen the oilsands? Mother Nature's biggest oil spill ever, and all we are doing is cleaning up the mess, why would environmentalists complain about that?

Pelosi is a typical Californian lefty, who will be retired in November, so Rae can get a boner about meeting the botox queen, but he might want to be careful about his stance on energy.

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"You don't need God anymore, you have us Democrats." - Nancy Pelosi (Quoted 2006)
(Is there anything going on behind those eyes????)

HOW LUCKY CAN THE USA BE - TO HAVE SUCH BRILLIANT MINDS IN CHARGE OF THEIR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY?

Global Warming Sucks!

I know, it's called weather and that is different from global warming, or as it is now called "climate change", but it still sucked today!

This was at 8:00 this morning (Tuesday) in Edmonton. I took this photo just before leaving for work and just before the power went out.


It continued to snow most of the day, and only one being seemed to like our snowstorm. Our little (growing rapidly) seeing eye puppy from California, had a great time in the snow!



Unfortunately, the 60 km winds and blowing snow probably had something to do with this tragedy. Father, two little girls killed in truck-train crash My prayers go out to the family. I can not imagine what the Mother is going through right now.

We also have this nonsense going on: Fight over Lucy the Elephant heads to court Leave Lucy alone! PETA already kills most animals it supposedly saves.

Finally, the Financial Post understands what I was saying all last week. The oilsands are not the big polluters the eco-nuts want everyone to believe. Louisiana spill takes environmental heat off of oil sands

Today, we shovel ourselves out, while mumbling about "global warming" and how it sucks!

Quebec Comes Begging To Alberta!

You know I would actually like Quebec, if they stopped talking about separation and started working towards a better Canada. Alberta and Quebec should be natural allies in the fight against the federal government powers, but Quebec keeps attacking Alberta. I imagine that Saskatchewan will be added to their bashing list soon too because they have oil sands as well.

It appears that Quebec speaks out of both sides of their mouths. They condemn Alberta oil sands in one breath at Copenhagen and in the next, they send a big delegation to Alberta looking for lucrative contracts.

But while the Quebec Premier is spewing hot air and smoke about his concern for the environment, his bureaucracy back home is working hard to benefit from the energy sector.

Next week, for instance, the Quebec Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export will organize an economic mission to Edmonton "to seize all the business opportunities" in the "recovery of oil sand development projects in Alberta".

Bureaucrats are also busy in the Quebec Ministry of Finance, preparing their 2010-2011 budget, which includes income of $8.5-billion in transfer payments, much of it from Alberta's oil fields. Similarly, the Caisse de depot et de placement du Quebec, which manages Quebec's pension plans, is also trying to recover from last year's historical loss by investing massively in the petroleum industry. Actually, according to its latest annual report, one quarter of the Caisse's most important stocks are in petroleum companies, including Canadian Natural Ressources Ltd, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, ENI (Agip), Shell, PetroChina and Petroleo Brasileiro. It is, in fact, the most important sector of investment of the Caisse's portfolio.

Funny that, Alberta is bad, until they want our money, then they take it without so much as a thank you.

Chantal Hebert gets that it is a Quebec versus Alberta fight. Too bad she doesn't mention that 10 seats in Quebec means nothing politically anymore. Quebec has lost it's political power, they are not needed for a majority, and they can thank the Bloc for that. Keep voting Bloc separatists, and see your power diminish even more.

This time, the issue is not the Constitution but climate change, and, in a reversal from the Mulroney dynamics, the Harper government is sending clear signals that it is willing to risk its small beachhead in Quebec to preserve its larger Alberta base.

The lengths to which the Conservatives are willing to go to do so were on exhibit Monday when Environment Minister Jim Prentice attacked Quebec's aggressive climate-change approach.

Too bad even columnists like Chantal, who I like, are still trumpeting the bogus climate change horn. So much for the sophisticated Quebec voters. If climate change is such an issue for Quebec, maybe they shouldn't come to Alberta looking for contracts, and maybe they should vote Green next election. Right, I thought not, somehow jobs are more important, right Quebec?

Here's the deal Quebec, you don't buy our oilsands oil, and we won't send you the 8 BILLION in equalization payments, we will call it a fair and square deal!

You Can't Have It Both Ways Greenies!

Do the greenies even understand what hypocrites they are, or are they just such followers that someone like Gore can blind them to real problems with real solutions?

Perfect case in point, the lawsuit against Syncrude because 1500 ducks died. Now I am really sorry that those ducks died the way they did because that made them inedible. What I fail to see is why one incident in 20 years makes this an international scandal.

Oil giant Syncrude failed to install noise making cannons near one of its toxic tailing ponds two years ago, leading to the death of more than 1,600 migratory birds, prosecutors told an Alberta court Monday.

The allegations came as prosecutors faced off against the oil company's lawyers over an April, 2008 incident which made headlines around the world and tarnished Alberta's most lucrative industry.

On Monday, lawyers alleged that Syncrude was the only oil company in northern Alberta that didn't have a warning system in place to scare birds away from dangerous tailing ponds.

"Other companies in the area had deployed their bird-deterrent devices," said Alberta Crown prosecutor Susan McRory. "Syncrude failed in its duty to protect the birds."

McRory is twisting the facts. I remember the blizzard that hit us unexpectedly....you would think our weather stations could have forewarned us about that storm, especially because they can supposedly predict what will happen 50 to a 100 years from now. So, in a one time incident, some ducks died. This is a HUGE deal to the eco-nuts.

But the Pembina Institute, an Alberta-based environmental group, said the facts of oilsands production simply don't back up the province's arguments.

The current tailings ponds for oilsands giants Syncrude, Suncor Energy and Albian Sands Energy Inc. cover 50 square kilometres, the group said.

The collective size of the ponds could quadruple, if all the projects proposed for the province go ahead, said Simon Dyer, Pembina's oilsands program director.

Dyer said an estimated 1.8 billion litres of tailings are produced every day in Alberta.

He called the incident with the ducks a "flashpoint," signalling the much larger problems unfolding in the oilsands.

"There are major problems with oilsands development on a whole host of fronts," he said.

"The oilsands are not a positive story when you delve into the data."

So, oilsands dead ducks, a HUGE environmental problem, and these "oil giants" need to pay. How about those wind turbines killing thousands of birds a year? Are the eco-nuts demanding lawsuits against those companies? Not so much.

Funny how the eco-industry can use consultants and spend huge amounts of money on the image of eco-industry, but when the oil industry does the same thing they are the bad guys.

Look at how the eco-nuts defend the fact that wind turbines are killing thousands of birds a year, every year. Not just a one shot deal like at Syncrude. These blades are slicing and dicing birds and bats daily, but that's okay because more birds are killed by cats and windows.

Human Causes of Bird Fatalities

Curry & Kerlinger has compiled the following information from environmental organizations and goverment agencies.

This list is meant to inform the public and to put wind turbine fatalities in perspecitve.
Glass Windows

Bird Deaths a year: 100 to 900+ million
Dr. Daniel Klem of Muhlenberg College has done studies over a period of 20 years, looking at bird collisions with windows. His conclusion: glass kills more birds than any other human related factor.
House Cats
Bird Deaths a year: 100 Million

The National Audubuon Society says 100 million birds a year fall prey to cats. Dr. Stan Temple of the University of Wisconsin estimates that in Wisconsin alone, about 7 million birds a year are killed by cats

So, 1500 ducks in one incident deserves a lawsuit, but because other things kill more birds, wind turbines are just fine and move along, nothing to see here.

The size of the annual body count — conservatively put at 4,700 birds — is unique to this sprawling, 50-square-mile site in the Diablo Mountains between San Francisco and the agricultural Central Valley because it spans an international migratory bird route regulated by the federal government. The low mountains are home to the world's highest density of nesting golden eagles.

Scientists don't know whether the kills reduce overall bird populations but worry that turbines, added to other factors, could tip a species into decline. "They didn't realize it at the time, but it was just a really bad place to build a wind farm," says Grainger Hunt, an ecologist with the Peregrine Fund who has studied eagles at Altamont.

Funny how all these green plans go so wrong. I think it's because you have university educated lefties with an agenda to save the world, kind of like the hippies of the 60's but more harmful. Biofuels take food out of peoples mouths, but they can justify that. Thousands of birds being killed by turbines, well, they aren't as bad as....blah, blah, blah. Eco-friendly good, heated homes for all, bad. Mercury filled light bulbs great idea, genetically altered seeds that would feed millions more people, bad. The list is endless.

I call them eco-nuts, but when you start reading what they say, they really are dangerous to our standard of living and life as we know it. Perfect case is DDT.

The greenies want it both ways, but it looks like people are wisely choosing not to listen to them anymore. Well except for those university students who think they know everything and the rest of us are just too stupid to understand the issues. Maybe if mommy and daddy cut off their funds they would sing a whole different tune.

Bring It On Obama!

US protectionism will make Canada wake up. After every recession comes change, it just might not be the change Obama was thinking about. Obama wants cap and trade, fine, we will cap it off, and trade it to China and India. How would the US react to loosing 20% of their energy supply?

Eco-nuts and Quebec want our dirty oil banned, let's go for it, let's stop selling our oil and gas to the US, tomorrow. Just for one week. See we care about the polar bears and our millions of miles of trees and our untouched wilderness. Have you noticed that every time oil goes up the TSX also goes up? Funny that.

Save Us Unholy Sinners!

Canadian church leaders head to northern Alberta tomorrow to explore the theological, moral and ethical implications of the oilsands.

The clergy aren't the only people interested in the oilsands this week.

Down in Washington, D.C., one of North America's top energy research consultants will testify before the U.S. Congress on the importance of the oilsands to future energy supply.

Canada now supplies 19% of U.S. energy needs, but if oilsands production is accelerated, that could rise to 37%, according to a new report by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA).

That in turn would translate into an injection of billions of dollars into the Canadian economy. Alberta isn't the only province that benefits. This massive industrial project creates a national demand for jobs, technology and manufactured goods.

The enormous tax revenue generated by all this activity benefits everyone.

Yikes, they want us to pollute more!! How many smog days has Alberta had? NONE. How many smog days for Toronto only? Too many to count. Last trip across Canada, we stopped at streams to let our dogs drink, until we hit Ontario, no way were we letting our dogs drink out of those brown polluted rivers.

The solution is getting back to nature. This article gives us an idea of how we can start.

Bison turn back the clock on a patch of prairie

CALGARY — In a remote part of the already remote Grasslands National Park in the southwest corner of Saskatchewan, a herd of plains bison is in the midst of calving season with another bumper crop of babies.

Three years ago, 72 pure-blooded animals were introduced to the 181-square-kilometre refuge as part of a Parks Canada initiative to bring large herbivores to an area that hasn't felt bison hooves in more than 120 years.

Now, that little herd has become prolific beyond expectations.

The animals in Grasslands were shipped as two-year-olds from Elk Island National Park near Edmonton, where Mr. Olson was based for 25 years. The youngsters acclimatized in a paddock before stepping beyond the gate where they had to learn how to behave like bison without guidance from adults.

Yahoo, I bet the eco-nuts love this, bison back on the prairies. I actually love it too. The more bison the better. They are actually a really healthy eat. HA!

They should be allowed to free range, like this:



I bet the eco-nuts are ecstatic about this herd of 300 Wood Bison.....NO? Oops, guess they don't want us to know that they are part of an oilsands reclamation project.

It's bad enough that Obama is trying to destroy our economy with "Buy American" protectionism. When Canadians like the Bloc in Quebec want to shut down the oilsands without even seeing them, ignorance is bliss. Quebec, listen to this, Alberta sends 8 billion into the equalization fund, you get 8 billion, do you see any connection? So sure we can shut down, but then you do not get 8 billion. Think about that, let it rattle around in your heads, prove to me you are not stupid.

Dion Shouts Out The Truth!

Look at all the blue sky!!! Suncor oilsands project!

With Garth slamming Quebec and Alberta, we hear that Dion was at the Calgary Zoo, with 100's of supporters or is that 100 supporters counting the monkey's? I gather they can't afford to rent a hall. Or was Dion just killing two birds with one stone, talking to his 100 Calgary supporters, while talking to the zoo animals! Hope he didn't get too close to the monkeys, because we all know how naughty those monkeys can be throwing stuff! Or was he at the petting zoo? Watch out for those methane animal farts Dion. HA!

What truth did Dion shout? It's contained in the last paragraph of this article.

"Bring Canada in conformity with what the world expects from Canada -- to have carbon pricing in Canada," Mr. Dion said. "Then nobody anymore will pretend that the oil coming from Alberta should be boycotted."

Nobody anymore will PRETEND that the oil coming from Alberta should be boycotted??

So, Dion came right out and told the truth about the environmental movement. It's all fake, it's PRETEND outrage! Alberta, get with the program, PRETEND we are conforming, you know like the Liberals signed Kyoto then pretending to be doing something. Alberta should bow down to the eco-terrorists, and then everything will be hunky dory! Got that Alberta, lie your faces off to the eco-nuts, sign anything, and the global sun will shine on you! Well, kiss Alberta's butt Dion, and take your little eco-terrorists with you. The oil is Alberta's! You easterner's don't even buy our oil, you buy "blood" oil from the Arabs.

You know how the eco-nuts have changed the talk from "global warming" to "climate change"? Well, here's the new word, that applies only to Alberta oilsands: "dirty". Coal generating plants in Ontario are not "dirty", Saskatchewan oil is not "dirty", China coal plants are not "dirty", but Alberta oilsands oil is "dirty". It's a targeted campaign by the eco-terrorists to shut down the one province that is keeping this country moving forward.

Watch how the eco-nuts keep calling it the "tarsands". Why? Tar just sounds "dirty". Here's an upside, once we take all that "tar" out of the sand, we'll have a wonderful beach! Maybe we should call it beachingoil? Or beachoil...makes me think of a coconut smell drifting on a slight breeze.

Federal Court Goes "Green"

Great it's bad enough that we have to put up with envionuts like Suzuki, but now the courts are getting into the battle! Green activist Judges, now that's scary!

Federal court orders review of oilsands project

EDMONTON -- The panel that gave the green light to a massive Imperial Oil oilsands project must explain how intensity-based targets will control greenhouse-gas emissions, a federal court judge has ordered.

....A coalition of environmental groups challenged the project in federal court in Edmonton earlier this year, saying the environmental assessment was inadequate on several fronts, including regarding greenhouse-gas emissions.

Justice Daniele Tremblay-Lamer said the panel must explain how it concluded that intensity-based targets will reduce the potentially damaging effects of the project's greenhouse-gas emissions to a level of insignificance.

Maybe the Judge should make the environment groups PROVE how CO2 is harmful first! Where are their facts that prove that intensity-based targets won't work? What gives a judge the right to even hear a case like this one? If the province of Alberta owns the resources, and supports intensity-based targets, who is this judge to tell Albertans what we can or can't do to develop our resources. Notice it's a FEDERAL judge poking her nose into Alberta jurisdiction. NEPII coming at you through the federal courts.

If you can't close down projects, and the oilsands through protests, try the courts? Nice, now I've got to go select the tree I'm going to be living in.