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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 9th, 2012
I wasn’t surprised at what Alberta Premier Alison Redford recently said, namely: The Alberta government is looking to clear a path for the oil sands through British Columbia by upping the economic benefits for its western neighbour – including the option of paying to modernize and expand West Coast ports. Premier Redford’s government stressed Tuesday [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 8th, 2012
This from the CBC: Canadian oil and business executives are well-represented in the delegation travelling to China with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, with oil exports expected to be high on the government’s agenda. A delegation assigned to Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver includes eight mining or oil and gas companies. That list of companies includes [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 27th, 2012
This is an open letter to NDP leader Adrian Dix and his Energy Critic, John Horgan. It’s time, gentlemen, to pee or get off the pot. The issues of the proposed Enbridge pipelines and tanker traffic on our coast demand your immediate statement of policy. In order that there be no misunderstandings, here are the [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 25th, 2012
Joe Oliver, Harper’s Resources minister, is a dangerous man. Indeed so is Harper. They have flung down the gauntlet, essentially saying that violence is the inevitable consequence of BC not taking the Enbridge Pipeline, the consequent tanker traffic, increased capacity and tankers for the Kinder Morgan line – with only a grumble or two from [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 24th, 2012
If there’s one thing above all politicians hate it’s democracy. For God’s sake, we can’t have the rabble have a say in decisions! Let them do this once and we’ll never get to run the province again! They believe that we live in a parliamentary, representative “democracy” which means that we hire people, called representatives, [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 13th, 2012
Today, because events are moving so quickly, a twofer for you. First, Premier Clark is in one hell of a jam and it’s scarcely improved with a man who I bet left the inner staff of Attila the Hun to join with Madam Photo-op by name of Ken Boessenkool, who amongst other clients worked as [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 11th, 2012
I have good news for our premier. If what I’m about to say is wrong, you have nothing to worry about. You see, Premier, I have this radical notion that the mood of the voter has changed – you evidently don’t, making it obvious (sorry to talk as if you are a slow learner) that [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 8th, 2012
Enbridge is proposing two pipelines to Kitimat BC to take Tar Sands gunk (more politely “bitumen”) to tankers who at 300 per year will take it to China as is, or to the United States for refining, thence China. Today I want to deal with the pipelines only. The horrible consequences of tankers on our [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 2nd, 2012
I write this not just as a New Year’s thought but also as one looking personally at his ninth and presumably last decade. And a sad scene I see. From the commencement of time ownership and control of societies have been shared, preposterously unfairly, between “them that has and them that doesn’t”. It continues today [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 22nd, 2011
I must say I was surprised to see that Conservative leader John Cummins supports the proposed Enbridge pipeline from the Tar Sands to Kitimat and I have since wondered if that would impact the NDP, the Liberals, both – or anyone. John has never been strong on complicated issues and I wonder if he realizes [...]
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