Don Robart

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FW: The Energy Industry Lie This is interetsing

Subject: The Energy Industry Lie This is interetsing

Does this strike a chord?

They want our water too. Just ask Mexico about the Rio
Grande deal

Subject: The Energy Industry Lie

An interesting read!
Randy Pompetti is the author of the note
below. He lives in Hanna, Alberta, and not
sure if he is an oilfield worker, but he
seems to have the knowledge and facts.
He actually posted it on Facebook in
October, 2015 and looks like its been
shared over 17,000 times by other
Facebook users, and also on many other
blogs and websites.
I am pretty sure his facts are credible or
reasonable, and he probably has the
political side nailed, when he speaks about
the Americans wanting to keep the oil
landlocked is an absolute truth. They want
to control Canadas resources and have
influential lobbying machinery in all facets
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of our politics, especially in British

Columbia.
My fellow Canadians, you are buying into a
lie regarding our energy industry and the
global environment. We are a mere 35 million
people, just 0.5% of this planet's 7.3 billion
population. Our country covers roughly 10
million square kilometers of which probably
90% is realistically uninhabitable (explaining
why over 80% of our population live in urban
centers within 200 kms of the U.S. border)
We endure temperature extremes ranging
from -40C or colder to 35C or warmer. Out of
necessity we need to heat our homes for 6+
months the year. We face major
transportation challenges simply because of
the geography of our country. Yet, through
all this we are responsible for less than 0.5%
of the pollution generated globally.
We ARE NOT the problem! If every one of us
here in Canada chose to sacrifice ourselves
for the betterment of mother earth and selfterminated, the positive effect on the global
environment would be.....drum roll
please......zero!
The global effect would actually be negative
because we are one of the most ethical,
environmentally responsible producers of
energy in the world! If we were out of the
picture the U.S. would be mining our oil
sands before our corpses had even started
giving off methane gas. They would then
proceed to build the biggest pipeline
imaginable, from Fort Mac to Texas.
Don't believe me? Let's look at some facts.
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The U.S. has no problem with pipelines; U.S.

pipelines that is. They actually have over 3.2
'million' kilometres of liquid petroleum and
natural gas pipelines already. There's also
the 1300 kilometre, 122cm (48 inch) line
running from Prudhoe Bay to the Valdez
Marine Terminal (yes, big bad oil tankers).
You are aware, aren't you, of the Trans
Alaskan pipeline running directly through
the pristine heart of that beautiful state?
As of 2010 16 'BILLION' Barrels of oil had
been transported through this U.S. pipeline
and terminal. The U.S. also has no problem
drilling for oil in the Atlantic ocean, the
Pacific ocean, the Arctic ocean or the Gulf of
Mexico yet they have the audacity to
condemn Canada for mining our oil sands in
northern Alberta and Saskatchewan?
The opposition to our Canadian energy
development is a well-organized attempt to
keep our Canadian oil land locked so that we
are forced to sell to the U.S. and to the U.S.
only and then at a very discounted price. The
U.S. is attempting and succeeding in
preventing us from marketing our own
natural resources globally to the highest
bidder. U.S. foundations (HP, Tides - THE
ROCKEFELLERS - et al) are funding the
opposition to our oil sands and contrary to
popular belief it has absolutely nothing to do
with threats to the environment.
If they really were that concerned about our
planet why are they not protesting the real
polluters, the real threats to our
environment? China, the world's worst
polluter (besides having a tragic human
rights record)? No protests.
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Why isn't David Suzuki over in Beijing

chastising Jinping? What about the other
major polluters? Russia? The U.S.
themselves? India? I can understand a
Canadian that is benefiting financially, who
is receiving grants to oppose or protest or
hamstring our own resource development.
What I can't understand is the rest of my
fellow Canadians buying into their bovine
excrement.
In the oil sands, our very own Canadian oil
sands, we have the 3rd largest proven crude
oil reserve in the world, behind only Saudi
Arabia and Venezuela - again, both with
'stellar' human and women's rights track
records. EVERY person in Canada, and
EVERY province and territory in Canada has
benefited tremendously, whether directly,
indirectly or both from our oil sands
development.
Over the next 25 years the oil sands has the
potential to generate over $1.5 TRILLION in
federal and provincial taxes and royalties. Of
course Quebec will need their share - but, oh
yeah, they don't want a pipeline either! There
is the potential for well over 500,000 direct
and indirect jobs.
So here's the deal my fellow Canadians. I
fear our Canadian 'goose that lays the
golden egg' is suffering the death by a
thousand cuts. Alas, it may already be too
late. Maybe it's already on life support. If you
share the views of the Gore's, the Suzuki's,
and the Obama's of the world, that our
Canadian energy producers and those that
work in this industry are bad and evil and a
scourge on the Earth, a blight on Canada's
reputation in the global community then fine,
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stick your fork into the goose as well but

please do not whine and complain 10 or 15
years down the road when the wait time for
your hip replacement is 3-5 years because
our health care system is underfunded and
there's a severe shortage of doctors and
nurses in the system. Meanwhile, the
Suzukis and their ilk will be flying down to
the Mayo clinic in a big bad fossil fuel
burning jet for their medical needs.
Don't whine and complain when your
grandchild's class has a 50:1 student to
teacher ratio because our education system
is underfunded and the government coffers
are bare. Of course the Suzuki grandchildren
will be in private schools so no problem
there.
Don't whine and complain when your city's
infrastructure is decaying and falling apart
and there's no money to repair it. Instead of
whining and complaining make sure you
look into the mirror and realize you believed
a lie that has cost this incredible country and
our future generations an amazing
opportunity to prosper and succeed globally.

If the arguments here ring true for you as

well, then please consider circulating this
to others.