A Tale Of Two Cleanups: Oil Sands Vs Mining
The oil and gas industry will shudder slowly to a halt. It will collapse, leaving the remediation to Canadian tax payers.
The oil and gas industry will shudder slowly to a halt. It will collapse, leaving the remediation to Canadian tax payers.
When will Canada learn? Stop throwing money at the fossil fuel industry. Let it live or die on its own with its decades of profits. Shift investment to clean technologies, technologies which are also much lower in contagion pathways for Canadians. Stop investing in the past and start investing in the future.
An Alberta oil company, X-Site Energy Services, handed out promotional stickers at job sites for workers to wear on their hard hats. These stickers had a cartoon image of Greta Thunberg, who is now 17, being sexually assaulted.
Teck made a tough call and made it the right way. Its only fault was letting it get anywhere near this brink. The company should have canceled this process months ago.
Teck Resources has decided to abandon its plan to build an enormous new tar sands mine in Alberta. It’s a significant victory for the Earth but environmentalists cannot rest. The fight for a clean energy future has a long way to go yet.
Alberta and its primary industry are going to leave Canadians from outside of Alberta with a quarter trillion dollar liability to clean up. And Canada and Canadian citizens will, for decades.
Canada has been a global leader for decades. We are part of the G7 and G20. Canada and the world can’t afford a return to Conservative leadership until they join us in this century.
It will cost Alberta nearly half a trillion dollars and several millenia to clean up the damage done by the oil and gas industry. Expect Alberta taxpayers to get hit with the bill.
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