Subject: [Tweeters] Gulf Oiled Bird Photographs (advise caution)
Date: Jun 5 23:42:24 2010
From: Michael Price - loblollyboy at gmail.com


Hi Tweets,

Meanwhile, in Canada, under the odious Stephen Harper regime, the only
deep-water drilling in North America is continuing off
Newfoundland-Labrador. From the Globe and mail three days ago.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/bp-disaster-canadas-deepwater-well-faces-scrutiny/article1589777/

and then we read this little item wherein Harper's Conservative government
has sneakily removed environmental protections from oil-industry actions,
including off-shore drilling and tanker traffic:

http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/05/31/OilSpillPrevention/

Followed by this little update on BC's equally back-door increased shipping
of dirty crude from Alberta in local waters (that is, yours and mine) by
tanker traffic:

http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/06/03/VancouverOilTankers/

At least in the US you have a government which is *finally* holding BP to
account, and it can, and should as a grossly-negligent serial environmental
offender, lose an absolute bundle.

In Canada, we take the Nigerian approach: Harper's government acts as both
enabler and protector of serial offenders such as BP.

Given the Harper government's recent surreptitious dismantling of
environmental protections, plus its go-ahead signals to the oil industry on
lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling along the seismically-active BC
coast, you don't have to be Nostradamus to predict an
oil-spill/blowout/tanker -rupture
disaster along the BC, and possibly/probably Washington, coastlines in the
near future.

Welcome to Nigeria.

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
loblollyboy at gmail.com

Every answer deepens the mystery.
- E.O. Wilson
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