How Environmentals miss the real villains
See Ezra Levant, Ethical Oil. The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands. Full of tightly knit arguments and uncontroversial facts, Levant slays the paper tiger thrown up by the anti-oil sands movement. By the end of the book that tiger lies bloodless and crushed.
Some of his points:
With the oil sands at our disposal is it ethically responsible to import oil from the host of countries run by brutal dicatorships who crush freedom—Sudan, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. While the companies exploiting the Alberta oil sands are subject to the scrutiny of a free public and because of that committed to an acceleration of technological innovations designed to reduce environmental harm.
Western companies operating in Canada and the US contribute an enormous amount to the government through taxes, and to the private sector through salaries and purchases. Stop the oil sands and immediately throw thousands out of work; many from provinces where unemployment is high. In the other countries, little profit trickles down to private individuals.
The environmental charges against oil sands companies shrink in the light of the pollution being caused in Mexico and Nigeria by flaring natural gas, in China through coal. Fires deep in coal mines in China contribute an enormous amount to global warming. Cars contribute more…etc., etc. Why doesn’t Greenpeace and their ilk target Saudi Arabia, China, etc.? Because they can’t Western countries are soft countries. They hounded Talisman out of Sudan, despite their outstanding contributions to schools, etc. leaving Sudan open to more rapacious exploiters.
Companies involved in ethical investing who pretend to challenge the Oil Sands, actually are hypocritically deeply invested in all the companies and in coal, etc.
Detractors use flawed measuring instruments and wildly idealistic views in evaluating the Oil Sands. “The real test of ethical oil is not in comparing oil sands oil to some imposible, ideal standard but comparing it to its real competition. Actually (p. 109) “the oil sands are more environmentally progressive and emit less waste than all sorts of other common industries in Canada and around the world. In just nineteen years, from 1990 to 2009, the intensity of greenhouse gases (GHGs0 from the oi sands has plummeted by 38 per cent.”
An impressive and well-nigh irrefutable argument.
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Some of his points:
With the oil sands at our disposal is it ethically responsible to import oil from the host of countries run by brutal dicatorships who crush freedom—Sudan, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. While the companies exploiting the Alberta oil sands are subject to the scrutiny of a free public and because of that committed to an acceleration of technological innovations designed to reduce environmental harm.
Western companies operating in Canada and the US contribute an enormous amount to the government through taxes, and to the private sector through salaries and purchases. Stop the oil sands and immediately throw thousands out of work; many from provinces where unemployment is high. In the other countries, little profit trickles down to private individuals.
The environmental charges against oil sands companies shrink in the light of the pollution being caused in Mexico and Nigeria by flaring natural gas, in China through coal. Fires deep in coal mines in China contribute an enormous amount to global warming. Cars contribute more…etc., etc. Why doesn’t Greenpeace and their ilk target Saudi Arabia, China, etc.? Because they can’t Western countries are soft countries. They hounded Talisman out of Sudan, despite their outstanding contributions to schools, etc. leaving Sudan open to more rapacious exploiters.
Companies involved in ethical investing who pretend to challenge the Oil Sands, actually are hypocritically deeply invested in all the companies and in coal, etc.
Detractors use flawed measuring instruments and wildly idealistic views in evaluating the Oil Sands. “The real test of ethical oil is not in comparing oil sands oil to some imposible, ideal standard but comparing it to its real competition. Actually (p. 109) “the oil sands are more environmentally progressive and emit less waste than all sorts of other common industries in Canada and around the world. In just nineteen years, from 1990 to 2009, the intensity of greenhouse gases (GHGs0 from the oi sands has plummeted by 38 per cent.”
An impressive and well-nigh irrefutable argument.
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