What’s So Radical About Caring for the Earth and Opposing Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline?
Published on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 by Straight.com
What’s So Radical About Caring for the Earth and Opposing Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipeline?
by David Suzuki
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/18-8
"Caring about the air, water, and land that give us life. Exploring ways to ensure Canada’s natural resources serve the national interest. Knowing that sacrificing our environment to a corporate-controlled economy is suicide. If those qualities make us radicals, as federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver recently claimed in an open letter, then I and many others will wear the label proudly.
But is it radical to care for our country, our world, our children and grandchildren, our future? It seems more radical for a government to come out swinging in favour of an industrial project in advance of public hearings into that project. It seems especially radical when the government paints everyone who opposes the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project as American-funded traitors with a radical ideological agenda “to stop any major project no matter what the cost to Canadian families in lost jobs and economic growth.”
It’s bad enough when our government and its “ethical oil” and media supporters don’t tell the truth, but it’s worse when they don’t even offer rational arguments. Their increasing attacks on charitable organizations and Canadians from all walks of life show that if they can’t win with facts, they’ll do everything they can to silence their critics. And we thought conservative-minded people valued free speech!"
Ethical Oil... Ethical Oil has always maintained that they are strictly grass roots and funded by the same.
"There has been some great work done recently exposing the web of connections between the Canadian Conservative party and the Ethical Oil tar sands PR campaign."
"See in particular the work by Emma Pullman and Deep Climate."
"For those of you looking for a simple way to represent these ties, here is a graphic that tries to capture some of the main ones uncovered so far. Please pass it around so that some daylight shines into this dirty business.":
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/matt-price/ethical-oil-pipeline_b_1209149.html?ref=canada&ref=canada
I was going to post this in the Canada forum but thought it might be of interest here, too.
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