Apparently Big Oil has instructed Prime Minister Harper to do whatever it takes to get that sticky bitumen flowing out of Canada.
The federal Conservatives are currently making a ‘full court press’ against any opposition to tar-sand oil pipelines in B.C.
Hot air will inflate political promises, financial figures will be fiddled, pipeline technology will be glorified and safety will be championed.
Critics will be demonized and bribes will be offered.
There are countless examples of corporate greed being exacerbated by human blundering.
One need only look across the Pacific Ocean to Japan’s ongoing nuclear nightmare. The expediency of short-term profits overwhelmed the morality of ethics.
Then there is Enbridge’s 2010 horrific Kalamazoo River oil spill. Their pipeline operators ignored the implications of the alarms sounded in Enbridge’s Edmonton headquarters for 18 hours and pumped nearly one million gallons of diluted bitumen into the environment.
All Canadians should heed George Bernard Shaw’s warning, “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
Lloyd Atkins