Recipe for Disaster

Never mind that the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline passes through 731 miles of pristine habitat and will cross 1,000 streams and rivers on it’s way to Kitimat, never mind that Enbridge has had 610 oil leaks from 1999 to 2008, the one in Michigan was over 1 million U.S. gallons of toxic oil costing  $700 million to clean up, never mind that Canada has a cap on what energy companies have to pay for environmental disaster cleanups, that cap is  an obviously inadequate $40 million dollars and whatever the balance is to try to clean up the mess shall be picked up by the taxpayers of Canada. 

As if that is not enough my main concern is what happens to that toxic sludge once it gets to Kitimat. Up to two million barrels of toxic sludge will be pumped onto a supertanker that was never meant to sail into most ports in the world let alone 240 Km into the fourth most dangerous waterway in the world, these behemoths are up to 4 football fields long 68 meters wide and have a 70’ draft, fully loaded a full emergency stop takes 3 Km and 14 minutes, it takes 2 miles to turn one. 

There will be approximately 225 of these dirty bombs plying one of the most pristine marine habitats in the world a year. 

They claim they will use ocean going tugs to keep these  dirty bombs looking for a place to happen out of trouble but the reality is that two tugs could not even move a fully loaded super tanker in rough weather, I suspect that the cost of this measure would not last long anyway and would be soon forgotten because of the prohibitive costs involved. Never mind the thousands of other things that can go wrong in this harsh environment each loaded supertanker has enormous inertia once moving and is hard enough to control at the best of times without the human error, alcohol, drugs, heart attacks, incompetence, distraction,etc., navigation equipment failures, darkness, fog, Coriolis force, tides, currents, storms, mechanical failure, not to mention collisions with other vessels and natural obstacles that exist. 

A super tanker disaster is not a matter of if, it is most assuredly a forgone certainty, 

and just one disaster would surely wipe out any monetary gain and loss of precious habitat for the people of B.C and ultimately Canada. 

Wayne Clark

AUTOCRAT

One of my NeoCon fans in addition to all the other derogatory slurs that have been heaped upon my person has just called me an AUTOCRAT can you believe it, that has to be the most erroneous use of the word I can imagine. 
Even though I am one of the 60 percent of the voters that did not vote for Steven Harper, that is of course of the 60 percent of registered voters that bothered to vote at all, and overall one of the 83.15 percent of all Canadians that did not vote for the Harper government of Canada, the reality is I have absolutely no power whatsoever.

Harper has given control over Canadians civil and human rights to America a paranoid bankrupt country that turns more into a police state every day and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it, the government of Steven Harper can engage in secret so called free trade agreements that he can sell off the very ground we stand on, the water we drink, the air we breath and there is nothing I can do about it, the Harper government of Canada can build pipelines, put your children in jail for smoking pot or anything they want and there is nothing I can do about it. 

Dear fan I know there is nothing the Harper government could do that you would not totally agree with like any good NeoCon fanatic, but the realty is that Harper has no mandate from the Canadian people to do any of these things, other than arguably putting all our children in jail for smoking pot.

In any legitimate democracy the government of the day has to have a mandate from the voters to implement major changes like taking away Canadian human and civil rights, having secret meetings without a mandate that can affect all our Canadian resources including water, not to mention the very essence of our society. 

If this is no longer a democracy we definitely can do something about that.

If you are going to use the word autocrat at least use it in it’s proper context, 
 "a ruler who has absolute power", and we all know who that description fits. 


This is definitely not the freedom or democracy my father went off and fought for.
Wayne Clark

Path to the dark side

When I was a young man I read a book called "The Devils Advocate by Taylor Caldwell",       it was a frightening glimpse into a possible future of America that saw America turned into a draconian left-wing dictatorship, the book has been eerily prophetic, the stories subplot is about how the American people and now respectively Canadians as well slowly trade their freedom, liberty and dignity for the promise of “personal security”,  but instead of a left-wing dictatorship as the book suggested the reality has turned out to be instead a ultra-rightwing Fascist dictatorship. 
As this book was written just years after the allies defeated Hitler a fascist monster I suppose it would at the time be incomprehensible to think that the jubilant victors would go down the same evil path.
In the book Canada has been literally absorbed by America and is a powerless resource territory for American exploitation but no one seemed to know when or how this tragic annexation took place. 
The same story as putting a frog in boiling water it will jump out, but if you put it in cool water and bring it to a boil slowly it will not jump out and will therefore die.


Well looking back now we can finally put a date to the slippery sloop to subjugation and loss of Canadian sovereignty started when Brian Mulroney and the Conservatives signed the the American free trade agreement on Jan 1/1994. 
Canada finally lost it’s sovereignty and  Canadian human and civil rights December 7/ 2011 when another Conservative government under Steven Harper fulfilled his life dream of turning Canada into just another American state by signing a new cross border trading agenda that will mean Canada providing the U.S.A. with personal information on millions of Canadians and become part of a North American security zone. 


The reality of this agenda means that Canadian's will have to live with Americas paranoid view of the world on security matter's which includes not only the Patriot act but the new draconian military authorization act which would see U.S. military operating anywhere in the world including Canada with the power to indefinitely  incarcerate Americans or Canadians without charges or trial. 
P.S. That will include the use of predator drones invading Canada's airspace to obliterate perceived American threats, think about the implications of that, the Americans have viewed more than one Canadian Prime Minister as communists Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau in fact the CIA murdered one of our ambassador that they believed was a Communist, should any country have such power over Canada, what ever happened to Canadian sovereignty, due process Canadian justice. 


The final nail has been driven into the still twitching corpse of American freedom, it's name is H.R. 347 or the Federal Restricted Buildings and grounds Improvement Act of 2011 which was passed by unanimous consent in the American Senate, it has been called the anti-occupy law but it's implications are far broader. 


America is now a true Fascist country. 


In conclusion Canada has literally sold it’s national security independence in exchange for hoped for minor changes to American border restrictions.
I can only imagine what other additional sellouts will come out of Harpers secret trade agreements.


If anyone is naive enough to believe any of these measures have anything to do with 
Al-Queda  you better give your head a shake, it is about the Occupy Movement and the 1 percents desperate bid to control the 99 percent.


Harper has not learned one thing from BC and Gordon Campbell and the ill fated HST, Harper  has no mandate from the Canadian voters for any of these disastrous Canada destroying actions, but he thinks he is in total control and there is nothing we can do to stop him. 


I would like to think he is wrong just like Mr. Campbell was.



Is this really the vision the citizens of Canada want for Canadians and their children's children, reminds me of another great deal, Manhattan island for a bag of beads.


Time for the silent majority to speak up and demand an election to get a proper mandate from the people, that is if he really believes this is what Canadians want.

Wayne Clark