Obamas good for Canada
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Topic: Green
"If" Obama wins ? you can almost hear political pundits hard and soft boiled intellectauals a like asking each other somewhat increduously in mocking comeuppance to McCains best efforts to equate Obama with Paris Hilton.
But no one is bold, dumb or cock sure or guilleless enough to say its in the bag. No waves of enthusiams for a grand new vision of America and its place in the world will wash over the long lost hold outs for a stern bent over curmudgeonly America, poking countries with its knarly cane. No tears are shed in anticipation of an America that doesnt command citizens to hold their heads high but all that begs them to do so.
America now has bold mixed with beautiful in its delightful pairing of aces with Michelles shining exuberance and Obamas inspiring oratoring.
So when Obama wins (there its been said by someone long lost in the netherworld of the blogosphere) we dont have to think too far back to remember it was Stephen Harper him self him self who once publicy praised Americans as lights to the world.
So the way I see it, there are two reasons to vote for Dion.
One is the environment and the other is , you guessed it the environment (again)...but this time viewed through the Canadian lens of who would make a better partner to the US with all of our interests combined? Harper or Dion?
The answer to that may not seem as plain as Stephen Harpers aching sentiment over Americans being a shining beacon in the world once was. Since Obama and Harper are almost all but guaranteed to go tete a tete over oilsands ga ga, the sucking noise from all those dollars leaving the terse lips of oil sands executives across the world while cursing environmenalists in the next breath..may portend for bad or soured relations between Canada and the US.
How about all that signal to noise ratio made by the auto unions over the plants shut down and jobs lost thanks to Canadas biggest trading partner moves?
What about NAFTA?
Dion in power with Obama as leader of the US seems even too delectable a picture to bother imagining for the time being.
Perhaps, behind Stephen Harper at least, Canadians are just not quite ready to match and meet the towering and dizzying aspirations Obama and Michelle would like to bring to their troubled land. With years and years of blood sweat and tears to commiserate them for being up there on the stage as dues already paid.
When you see Obama conventioners shedding tears and wiping away tears
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RE: OIL SANDS ALBERTA
Native elders have long said water pollution is behind a high incidence of cancer and other ailments.
Including a mutated two-jawed fish from Lake Athabasca, downstream from the oil sands developments.
— The largest dump truck in the world is parked under a massive mechanical shovel waiting to transport 400 tons of oily sand at an open pit mine in the northern reaches of Alberta.
Will Canada's oil boom be an environmental bust?
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iqCelKhx188LOgLQ8Z8X65tsoGywD92O4V300
Interesting. Tories want regulations to limiting the emission of greenhouse gases and enforced them through the Canadian Environmental Protection Act under the federal government's criminal-law power - ....
Wow.
Industry is concerned about using criminal sanctions to enforce the complicated system of measuring and attributing emissions..
but also probably concerned Federal Liberals will punish them with fines if they dont toe the line.
Despite all these feelings and misgivings about industry as big polluters (were all polluters) ...10,ooo kids with asthma cant be wrong you know....industry will win,win ,win and then win some more much to the delight of CEO's and stockholders...
but not just at such a heavy "cost" to the environment.
Lets face it. Industry has never even been too concerned about their imprint on the environment anyway. But we have come a long, long, long ways from Dickens era and one day we will look way back again with the same scope of time and really, really appreciate the view.
Few can argue that this long term view at this point in time is cloudy, murky, unclear, hazy....just like so many smokestacks obscuring a far horizon or limiting ones vision as if in a dense fog...
despite everything I personally like about the Rt Hon S. Harper and his eloquent speaking skills aside, and his crisp conciseness which are important qualities.....I cannot in good conscience vote for anybody while disregarding Alberta pending environmental catastrophe in the making...
. As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet-bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells. In so doing, it is running out of water, destroying its range land, wiping out its forests and wildlife and spewing huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, adding to global warming at a rate that is unrivalled in Canada or almost anywhere else in the world. It's digging, drilling and blasting its way to oblivion, becoming the ultimate symbol of Canada's-and the world's-pathological will to self-destruct
http://thegreenpages.ca/portal/ca/2007/10/stupid_to_the_last_drop_how_al.html
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