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Have you ever wondered why
pipelines are considered a horrible environmental blight in Canada, but
nowhere else in the world?
The answer is simple ... Canada
cannot market its oil and gas products without pipelines. If some people
want to keep Canada out of participating in the world petroleum markets,
demonizing pipelines makes it impossible to extend or build new pipelines
to seaports and domestic markets and the blockade mission is
accomplished.
The highly successful
environmental push to block Canada’s petroleum industry growth and with
it a booming economy, full employment and billions for research into more
efficient and effective ways to burn petroleum products more cleanly is a
successful public relations campaign that has very little basis in truth.
It is not the first time we
have been hoaxed by industrialists and investors protecting their profits
and influence.
Consider alcohol advertising
prior to our adding up the carnage on our streets when inebriated drivers
take the wheel. Think about tobacco advertising before we connected
smoking and lung cancer. Consider advertising for a diabetes medication
that was prominent for years until it was linked to deterioration of
kidney functions.
Advertising (public relations)
campaigns are designed to shape our views and thinking. They are aimed at
our feelings and sensibilities rather than at our logic and reason. It is
incredible that adult Canadians accepted that 17-year-old Greta Thunberg
brought an important message respecting climate change to us.
Have we become that gullible?
An instinctual hatred of pipelines is a conditioned response to the wider
public relations campaign of vilifying carbon products, not because they
are harmful, but because we are much more easily manipulated, regulated
and taxed if we are convinced that we should be fearful for our future.
As the years pass, and the dire
predictions of global warming / climate change catastrophe fails to
materialize we are beginning to realize we have been deceived. That, is
fraught with difficulty, as no one cares to admit that he or she has been
hoodwinked.
In recent weeks, we saw a
variety of indigenous and academic persons interviewed respecting
pipeline protests. Listening carefully, one can identify the scripts that
form part of any full press public relations campaign. The people
motivated by the campaign must stay “on script” for the campaign to
succeed, hence activists are armed with talking points.
One giveaway is
that when an activist or academic is asked a question he responds with
the talking points he has memorized.
If you choose to believe that a
half-dozen traditional (hereditary) indigenous chiefs in northern British
Columbia created the arguments they put forth -- respecting traditional indigenous
sovereignty -- without spending large sums of money on research,
organized a cross country media campaign to keep their message front and
center, for all but the first six days of February, you are welcome to
your delusions.
Maintaining a public relations
campaign for more than a few days is prohibitively expensive. When
something looks suspicious to us, follow the money. Where is the money
coming from that drives this public relations campaign? Who stand to gain
by keeping Canada out of the world petroleum market?
Claims by our government that
it is committed to reducing world carbon emissions are rubbish. While our
government is complicit in keeping Canada out of the world petroleum
market, Canada has no control over petroleum demand and supply or more
accurately energy demand and supply.
Developing nation, who
outnumber developed nations need energy to grow and prosper. It takes
energy to light houses, provide a water supply, pump sewage, build
highways and rail networks to move raw and finished goods to market,
distribute imports, run mills and factories. Much of that energy comes
from coal. Burning diesel or even better, natural gas reduces carbon
output.
Like most ideologues, our
federal government is hoist on its own petard;
Canadian oil and gas can
help to reduce carbon emissions overseas by replacing coal plants and our
clean technologies can even further reduce harmful industrial output. The
environmental public relations effort is highly misleading in its zeal to
demonize carbon while excluding and ignoring all other emissions.
Carbon dioxide is an odourless,
colourless gas that does not cause or contribute to the smog that is
choking many cities. Canada’s clean technologies can help to alleviate
industrial and public service emissions and reduce smog. However, we need
the robust economy development our resources will produce, to develop,
improve and export those technologies.
Climate change is real and
ongoing. However, the cataclysmic climate change of the environmentalist public relations lobby is based
on fiction to, induce fear in our society and, make us beg our government
to save us without regard to cost.
The truly frightening thing is
that it very nearly worked.
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