Babel-on-the-Bay: Exxonneration?
Help is on the way. It was wonderful to read that ExxonMobil is being sued by the New York Attorney General’s office in the United
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Author Andrew Nikiforuk tells a bleak tale of squandered...
By adopting an energy policy founded on low royalties and pipeline development, the NDP government of Premier Rachel Notley squandered an opportunity to implement a
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: Finance ministers can also lie.
Canada’s provincial finance ministers met last weekend for a play date with their federal counterpart. This was a follow-up to the first ministers meeting on
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: All we got from Trudeau was a Ho-Ho-Ho.
How do you like that bunch of ingrates in Alberta? Prime minister Trudeau comes up with a $1.6 billion Christmas present for them and all
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: The entitlement of being Alberta.
Have you ever felt the cold of Calgary in the loneliness of two AM walking about six city blocks from the Calgary Herald offices to
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Trudeau’s Dodgy Ten Billion Dollar Bet
Justin Trudeau bet the farm on bitumen when he bought the Trans Mountain pipeline. Cutting a treasury cheque for $4.5 billion to the former owner, Kinder Morgan, and facing another $7 billion to...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: This Is What Gives Them Away
A lot of stupid people in Canada have come to think of Athabasca bitumen as “oil.” That is the single most important victory the petro-state has achieved. It’s not oil. It may be turned into oil at a...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Those Ever So Tarry Sands
You know your country has descended into a petro-state by the arguments it invokes to excuse itself. The classic Tory line that’s now the Liberal line is that, gee shucks, Canada is such a minor player...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: BRITAIN WINS! Parliament Declares Climate National...
From CNN: Lawmakers in the UK Parliament have declared “an environment and climate emergency,” making it the first country in the world to do so, according to the opposition Labour Party. The motion...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: What Yesterday Meant to Me
Since that first time I heard Greta Thunberg, I sensed that something wonderful might be about to happen. Eventually she inspired a resistance. The school children’s revolt and then Extinction...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Bank of Canada Warns: Beware of Carbon Dumpster Fires
Bad tidings for the Petro-Pols of Parliament Hill. The Bank of Canada warns of looming carbon-asset “fire sales” that could destabilize our economy. The shift to a low-carbon economy is “underway” and...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Eviscerating The Bitumen Bullshit
Give Jason Kenney, his predecessor, Rachel Notley, and our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, their due. When it comes to bitumen and bullshit they’ll lay it on just as thick as they can every chance they...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Stephen Harper’s proposed restrictions on bitumen exports...
Late last week, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer was once again accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Government of wanting to phase out the oilsands, as he put it, and passing...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: A tar sands story
Canadian Natural Resources, Canada’s largest oil and gas producer, has set an ambitious goal regarding greenhouse gas emissions. It has announced that by applying advanced technology, including carbon...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: The surreallity of life in Alberta
Living in Alberta, I sometimes get the feeling I live in a place shifted a few degrees off centre from reality. For example, in the real world we are faced with the overarching threat of global...
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: From small creeks do mighty rivers flow.
From the Manchester Guardian to the Toronto Globe and Mail, there have been reports of our federal government scientists testing spills of diluted bitumen from Alberta’s tar sands. As one source...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Trans Mountain Pipeline court ruling looks like a win for...
You win some, you lose some. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney won one yesterday with the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal to strike down a challenge by a group of four British Columbia First Nations...
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: Have they ever lied to you before?
Teck Resources, the Vancouver-based company that wants to dig the largest open pit tar sands mine in Canada, tells us that the enterprise wants to be “carbon neutral” by 2050. I am sorry, but if you...
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: Buffalo Declarations and other Bull.
There is an odour emanating from the politics of self justification in Alberta. And it is not that of the wild prairie rose. It is the greed and the false tears and it is the manure that helps it grow....
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: Just a voice in the wilderness!
The truth is that blogs get as much attention as just another mosquito in the wildness of Ontario. No matter what the readership numbers, you never seem to reach the readers who can do something. They...
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