Northern Gateway pipeline opposed by 50% in B.C
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AB/SK oil going through BC to port is a national dilema? Seems to me the dilema is a dieing world east of the MB/ON border.
We migrated to discussing co-operation with aboriginals, and now you're shifting after losing that argument.
And it does not occur to the fools that there was monstrous amounts of coal mined in the area, loaded (and spilled) there for 60 years or so and we never had and still don't have a problem with fisheries in the area.
Your right about the Johny come NIMBY bunch, they want desperately broke people to mow their lawns and clean their houses in perpetuity.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Obviously the situation is more granular than the environment vs. economy wedge your government has given people pitchforks for.
So if the pipeline isn't built, desperately broke people will become paperboys?
Enough with the ideological stuff please.
Port of Vancouver employs nearly 30,000 people. I guess people in BC don't want another 30,000 jobs in Prince Rupert?
And then out of the country once our manufacturing sector is crippled and we've extracted too many resources?
Will the uranium and potash ports be good for the environment or oil is just the easiest for Bolsheviks to spell?
HAHA! YOU decry ideology?, i needed a laugh this morning.
Then your lame attempt to write off the very folk that lefties claim to champion? Uh, ok.
When you say "balance" that infers one is opposed to the other! Shouldn't we be working toward one complementing the other? :smile:
Here's the kicker JLM; apparently Flossy and the remainder of the Big Brother crowd will be the ones to determine exactly what is the 'right number'.
I recall hearing of circumstances in the old USSR wherein the gvt released the 'right number' of shoes, food stuffs, etc... I also recall hearing that the shelves in 'the people's stores' were perpetually empty
There are jobs that cause some degree of harm to the environment, and there are jobs that may not do much harm. Even the "greenest" car is not truly green as petros attempted to cleverly point out in one of his failed threads.
The point is that the overall concern when it comes to energy is granular and complex.
A pipeline, however, can be shown to be an environmental problem, and the economic boon is not guaranteed to be as satisfactory or a "no brainer" as Harper would put it. That's why these projects need careful review.