Comments on: Ethical oil is too important for Clark to play games with

By: JLS

JLS — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:29:00 +0000

Sure is nice to see such honest reporting! It not one sided, not narrow minded, it must have been inspired by God right!

By: MissTFied

MissTFied — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 23:39:00 +0000

The dirty Tarsands bitumen and the diluent has little to no chance of coming through BC. Christy and Alison both, are simply posturing to their base. Christy knew that Alison would not agree to a share of royalties and so Christy is able to say that without that sharing of revenue agreement, the pipeline is a ‘no go’. Now both premiers can save face. John Cummins of the BC Conservative Party has said the pipeline will not go ahead as has Adrian Dix of the BC NDP. This was all an exercise in political posturing and saving face. Neither Alberta nor Enbridge would be responsible for any spills from the tankers from Kitimat, which is another huge concern to British Columbians in our coastal waters. These waters are the fourth most dangerous in the world. Super tankers may be state of the art with double hulling etc. but it is a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’ a spill would occur. There is absolutely no way to effectively clean a bitumen spill – it sinks, it doesn’t float.

By: Richard Murray

Richard Murray — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:02:00 +0000

Premier Clark needs to purge her advisory team and get some smart people in there.
There is no question that Enbridge, due to their stupidity in reaction to the Kalamazoo breach and others not as harmful, need to be held to a high standard. They seem to me, to be quite lackadaisical in the response to emergencies.
The demand for revenue for transit of materials through British Columbia, however, is way off mark.
This situation needs to be taken out of the media glare, with reasonable people on both sides to negotiate a fair deal for all concerned.