Did you hear about the latest oil spill right here in Alberta? It's the by far biggest oil spill in Alberta in the past 30 years, the second one in the last week alone (yes, it happened last Friday and only got into the news today!!!!), and it happened "within the traditional territory of the Lubicon Cree, who lead a largely subsistence lifestyle within the pristine ecology of northern Alberta's boreal forest." Reading alone the quote I wonder why on Earth is a pipeline in this area?
It's unclear yet how long the clean-up will take. My sarcasm tells me that this is due to the fact that corporations in Canada pay enormous tax rates and it's therefore likely that the culprit oil company has little spare cash to deal with the issue quickly and responsibly! Five days have past and the extend of the incident is unknown - who are you trying to fool?
The suggestion of the David Suzuki Foundation is to get of oil and find alternative energy sources - sorry, but with a strongly oil-addicted leader of this country this seems an overly ambitious suggestion so why don't we keep doing business as usual and ignore what happened while pumping further subsidies into the oil & gas industry. Long live Stephen Harper!
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