The totally, if not a pre plan to let Obama off the hook & green light more of this insanity, inappropriate hardball timing of Harper & his cronies of Harper INC. & ruthless timing with Syria pressures & wanting answers now, is right out of the back alley Bay & Wall Street politics, down & as dirty as the tar sands & many of its fat cats. Canada stands to push the world to a climate end game much faster if its tar sands technology is exported to many of the over 70 different countries that possess bitumen deposits. In countries such as Madagascar, the United States, Nigeria and Trinidad & Tobago, tar sands mining threatens both the local land and water and the global climate. In Venezuela, the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) and the United States, vast in situ (deep underground, or “in place”) developments are getting set to gobble up massive amounts of energy and water, while threatening to spew carbon into the atmosphere at rates higher than any other energy extraction. Companies such as TOTAL, Statoil, BP, Suncor and ENI have started to “share” their “achievements” on Canadian controlled territories elsewhere, and are promoting the "Canadian model." Wherever tar sands are proposed local populations have nothing less than their own survival at stake. Communities facing tar sands global expansion need support and solidarity. The corporations that are expanding tar sands around the globe come from the most powerful states on the planet. Allies of those resisting this extraction should as well.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 23:12:35 +0000