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Peter Kent: ethical oil champion

November 28th, 2011  |  By: EthicalOil.org

Good for Peter Kent, federal environment minister, for standing up for the ethics of Canadian oil, and at a UN climate change conference of all places.

From the Vancouver Sun:

“As world leaders gather in South Africa to discuss climate change this week and next, Canada’s environment minister says he plans to defend Alberta’s oilsands and is willing to argue they are an `ethical’ and reliable energy source.”

Pay no attention to the attempts at media spin that the ethical oil message isn’t catching on. In just the last few weeks we’ve heard it from high-ranking U.S. politicians, from top American energy officials, and political leaders across Canada. If that’s not catching on, we’re not sure what is. No other message has encapsulated so perfectly what the oil sands stands for and that’s why it’s driving the anti-oil sands lobby crazy.

We can’t wait to see how they’ll deal with Peter Kent, at a Kyoto-type meeting, delivering a much-needed reality check to delegates that there are much bigger problems in the world than a relatively small amount of of carbon dioxide coming from a hugely beneficial energy project in Canada.

 

  • Ash693

    Spinning is what big oil does. Shame on all oil companies for what will happen to this planet.

    • Robmax

      More alarmist nonsense.

      • John

        What is alarmist about about making sober comparisons between different sources of oil and the evironment from whence they come?

    • John

      Ethical Oil is not big oil. No one is “spinning” the fact that in Conflict Oil Countries (Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and others) women are treated worse than cattle, anyone who would even think to protest is jailed or executed, and that oil, as a source of material for energy, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods and on and on is lifeblood to the global economy. The term “ethical oil” is an excellent and succinct phrase that elegantly sums up the benefit of purchasing from a great nation like Canada versus abusive and criminal regimes. “Blood Diamonds” awoke the world to the horror of warlords and their atrocities; so, “Ethical Oil” will wake the world up to the despotic regimes in Conflict Oil Countries.

  • Guest

    You can not call our oil “ethical” based on a contrast between those governments and ours, without pointing to obviously unethical willingness on the part of the Canadian government to sell boat loads of weapons to all of these governments.

    You call these other nations un-ethical and I won’t argue the point I agree with you on many fronts on how they treat their populations… However, stop the weapon sales… stop propping up these regimes… Give us some moral and ethical foreign polices and apply them and then we can chat again…

    Foolish western policies to prop up these governments over the last few decades are the reason we are seeing the movements we are across the Arab nations… Western governments like Canada have been propping these nations up. Canada has been selling them boat loads of weapons on the premise they would remain stable, remain pro-western, and most importantly keep the oil flowing. Now we will begin to reap the consequences of the last few decades as the pendulum swings the other direction as a result of these populations being crushed under the thumbs of western supported dictators. Small wonder these populations are angry at their own governments and how long will it take before they take stock and focus some of that anger on the source of the problem which was our governments supporting the dictators who oppressed them for so long.

    The term “ethical oil” is a load of horse puckie…

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