tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post1540847232152026299..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: You Have to Choose - Will It Be Canada or Athabasca?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-35062458725138623652011-01-20T23:19:14.289-08:002011-01-20T23:19:14.289-08:00@Anon2:08. Deciding not to procreate is a tough o...@Anon2:08. Deciding not to procreate is a tough one. I can truly understand your viewpoint and I'm not sure I'd want my children (both now at that age) to start families of their own. Yet there's an element of resignation in that decision that is just as tough to accept.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-2268698022651405572011-01-18T02:08:25.093-08:002011-01-18T02:08:25.093-08:00I don't think any politician will have the bal...I don't think any politician will have the balls for such a tactic. My plan is just not to breed, because I'm not looking forward to the world we'd be leaving to any offspring I'd have. We can bitch and moan, and protest, and petition, but we don't have the money, so why would the politicians care. Maybe I'm just bitter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-90469557047039663312011-01-17T23:04:17.232-08:002011-01-17T23:04:17.232-08:00In Athabasca the oil companies have wrangled a Fau...In Athabasca the oil companies have wrangled a Faustian deal from the Alberta government whereby their liability for CCS leakage is minimal and the government (i.e. taxpayers) are on the hook to indemnify Big Oil almost in perpetuity against civil claims. After a limited number of years all liability passes to the province both for damages and for monitoring the reservoirs. It's a truly shitty deal being foisted on future generations by wholly unscrupulous Conservative politicians. Then again you don't hear the IgLibs raising so much as a whimper in protest.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6084783404502184142011-01-17T21:52:42.973-08:002011-01-17T21:52:42.973-08:00The Kerr's story is shocking evidence of oil c...The Kerr's story is shocking evidence of oil companies failing to monitor the environmental damage they are causing, and governments letting them get away with it. As Nikiforuk notes, initially, Weyburn was said to be "highly suitable for the secure, long-term storage of CO2", but the site would require monitoring for 5,000 years! After the leaks began, the Saskatchewan government promised a year long study, but all that happened was a few day long tests. The Kerrs were forced to hire a private contractor to provide an independent report in order to get anyone to pay any attention to their claims.<br /><br />So, who is going to monitor leakage from CCS projects planned for the Tar Sands? At the very least, Ignatieff should be promising improved regulation and independent monitoring for these projects, and demanding that oil companies be on the hook for environmental damage. I can't see even that happening, because it might slow down the expansion of the Tar Sands which, as Ignatieff keeps saying, are the economic future of our country. Disgusting.LMAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-25572584594508374442011-01-17T21:22:57.973-08:002011-01-17T21:22:57.973-08:00yep!yep!Oemissionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15052778663890940687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-90103153091982926262011-01-17T21:15:02.450-08:002011-01-17T21:15:02.450-08:00The worse thing about this is the fact that Canadi...The worse thing about this is the fact that Canadians are not even benefiting monetarily from the sale of this faux oil....not by a long shot...we get enough to keep the majority quiet. A person would think Healty Care in the Province of Alberta would be the best in Canada and also has the potential to be the best in the world from oil taxes. However, that is not where the meer taxes are being put. AnyongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-10137137798760261622011-01-17T19:06:34.905-08:002011-01-17T19:06:34.905-08:00The movie Dirty Business covers coal in the US, an...The movie Dirty Business covers coal in the US, and delves into the UofR and Weyburn/Estevan CCS project and how it's not going to work.saskboyhttp://www.abandonedstuff.comnoreply@blogger.com