Looking at the actions of oil companies it’s clear they only care about one thing: profit. Everything else, like the planet and human life, is a tertiary concern that is easily ignored. With the release of the most recent IPCC report why are governments and thinkers listening to these planet
Continue readingTag: regulatory capture
The Disaffected Lib: Once Again, Ottawa Fails the Coast
British Columbia’s salt water fishery is controlled out of Ottawa by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. That’s the same bunch that bungled the east coast fishery leading to the severe collapse of the once bountiful cod stocks. Now DFO is screwing up the west coast, starting with our herring
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: About that Kinder, Gentler, Cleaner Fossil Fuel Industry
Petro-states tend to become lap dogs for the fossil fuel giants that feed them revenues. They wind up, to some degree, in bed together. Canada is no exception. The federal government is so in thrall to the fossil fuel industry that it has bought a multi-billion dollar pipeline just to
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Alberta oil selling at 50% discount to world priceā¦
…which explains why the Canadian government is Hell-and-High-Water-bent on building a pipeline, any pipeline, anywhere. First, the stats Over the past few months, new stories have noted that Canada’s oil sector isn’t getting full price for its heavy oil — in large part because American pipelines are well-supplied with newly-flowing
Continue reading