Neille Hawkwood should apply “a little dose of reality” to her thinking.
She claims correctly that the Earth’s climate is changing. That’s where her reality ends. She claims the energy boom times are over. Wrong. According to independent sources, oil and natural gas will be in demand for up to 50 years, until technological advances (of which our energy companies lead in green innovation) eliminate the need for these resources.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his environmental thugs prevent Canada from taking advantage of the remaining economic opportunity while the U.S. has become the world’s largest energy exporter.
Hawkwood claims that governments are not responsible for the dramatic investment decline in our energy industry. How absud. When former-president Barack Obama asked Trudeau to support his environmental proposals at the Paris Environmental Accords, the “quid pro quo” should have been; “Only if you approve Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline.”
Trudeau was suckered, Keystone is still a ditch, America takes our oil at gunpoint prices and Alberta’s economy is in the toilet. Trudeau’s government is directly responsible for more than a dozen energy producers leaving Canada after the nationalization of Kinder Morgan, (Venezuela anyone?) The Liberal introduction of Bills C-48, C-69 and C-57 will make it virtually impossible to build pipelines to tidewater.
According to the C.D. Howe institute, investment in Canadian resource industries plunged $100 Billion between 2017 and 2018, 4.5% of Canada’s GDP. Hawkwood “claims that the Premier Rachel Notley's government has done everything it could to support our energy industry.” That’s a blatant lie.
Oil-company-hating Notley would have shut down the entire energy industry then realized she needed someone to pay for her obscene borrowing to support her socialist agenda. Instead of borrowing $3.7 billion for dangerous oil by rail, Notley should have shut off the taps to B.C. That would have demonstrated support for Alberta’s economy and forced the federal government to get off its ass and build pipelines.
Notley thought her carbon tax would provide Trudeau with the “social licence” to encourage pipeline infrastructure. Like Trudeau with Obama, Notley was suckered by Trudeau. Hawkwood claims the lifeblood of Alberta’s future is the agricultural industry. Is that so? Trudeau’s Canadian Food Agency has revised Canada’s food guide telling us to stop eating meat, poultry and dairy products. We’ll soon be living on tofu, lentils, bean spouts and veggie burgers while enjoying a “Trudeau marijuana” high. Fully 28 per cent of methane emissions are generated by the agriculture industry. Ranchers better park the tractor, hitch the team and sell methane producing cattle.
She’s wrong that Scandinavian nations are socialist countries. These nations have economies with conservative principles of individual autonomy, self determination, gender equality, and free trade based on wealth creating tax paying capitalism that pays for their strong social safety nets and health care programs.
In contrast, socialist countries control their populations thinking through Marxist, Leninist or Trotskyite ideologies designed to redistribute wealth, control free speech and citizen’s behavior and nationalize industry or parts of it. (Again Justin’s Kinder Morgan comes to mind). I welcome challenges on any of these issues from Hawkwood or anyone else. You know where I am.
L. (Tex) Leugner
