Vancouver one of Canada’s biggest cities that ’s main claim to fame is it’s unparalleled beauty and livability and pristine environment, well it may be with our present Federal government our Provincial government has no say either, maybe the People of BC it’s aboriginal peoples and the people of Vancouver have no say in what level of exploitation or risk of environmental degredation we are prepared to accept, not to mention the monetary and environmental liabilitys associated with these carpet-baggers exploits.
I have to wonder how Canada has come to this circumstance where the people of a supposedly free country have given up their rights to control what goes on in their own living room to uncaring corporate shills living 3540 Km away.
Who do they think they are fooling with these ridiculous liability caps of 40 million dollars for cleaning up their inevitable disasters, just one such disaster on land or in our coastal waters could easily cost a billion dollars or more ( Exxon Valdez was $2.5 billion and counting), I can only see environmental disaster and financial catastrophe for the people of Vancouver, BC, Alberta and ultimately the people of Canada.
Four pipe lines to sell non-value added raw non-renuable oil resources each one a clear and present danger to the environment, economy and the continued wellbeing of the Canadian people.
Canada is on the razors edge of becoming resource poor as has been the sad experience of many African countries where having natural resources instead of being a blessing is in fact a curse.
Is this the brave new world that the one percent corporate elite see for Canada and it’s people?
Canada is on the razors edge of becoming resource poor as has been the sad experience of many African countries where having natural resources instead of being a blessing is in fact a curse.
Is this the brave new world that the one percent corporate elite see for Canada and it’s people?
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