Is oil really worth it and should we still be risking our lives for it?

How could we ever explain the killing of life in our oceans and on our lands to future generations?

The tar sands, steam and underground oil/shale fracking, deep sea oil rigs, the pipelines and the railcar oil spills … all of which keeps happening.

Will oil ever really be safe? Of course not, it was a bad idea to keep around this long. Could it stop, or would it stop if we all stopped shopping around to keep buying more gas? What if we all drove electric cars?

No, nothing will stop the government and the taxes they now need to repay to us.

Don’t worry about most of the Harper Government since they won’t be retiring in Alberta. It’ll be more the Cayman Islands with many of the other political pirates who are not planning for our pensions.

It seems the Harper Government (as always) knows what’s best for “Us the People” in what was supposed to be a debate but is now becoming  a BIG de-battle for our environment!

The commercials and billboards that talk about how we are all on the same team with Trans Mountain Pipeline are just not true. I never tried out for the Trans Mountain “team” and never would! Sure, there is job creation in the construction of all these oil sucking, burning and wheezing devices that turn carbon fuels into fire and pollute the air. But after the construction of these monolithic enviro eye-sores, they don’t leave much for the future of the landscape.

And there is little to nothing left for the community as many of the profit-flow takes the bypass on Canada to somewhere off-shore and tax-free (as was always the real plan) for “team” players inside the oil industry corporations.

Yes, these “team” owners talk big, make big political donations, and seem to miss the BIG NEWS: the rest of the world thinks we in Canada are messing up bad and ruining land and water in our country!

Let’s hope we can see a change in government (long overdue) and get back to having three or four real political parties in Canada, rather than the environmental protection offered by the so-called Harper Government.

Let’s make sure we keep all our creatures on land and in the sea healthy and happy.