Alberta, Canada is basically a petro state. Oil and gas production rule everything and it’s happening everywhere in the north of the province. Pipelines criss cross most of Alberta. As a result, leaks of wells, facilities and pipelines are a constant thing all over the province.
But we Canadians almost never hear about them. Our main media, CBC, does not provide any coverage of the many, many spills and gas releases that happen every month, nor the efforts to clean up the messes. They’re simply not considered news…at least not on the scale of disasters like some attention grabber showing up at the War Memorial on Remembrance day in uniform and bedecked with medals..none of which (uniform included) belonged to him. The guy is under arrest for impersonating an officer.
But back to the non news. It seems someone is taking notice. West Coast Native News (WCNN) has been quietly keeping tabs on all the spills and leaks. What they have found is shocking!!
More past the toxic orange spill…careful you don’t get any on your shoes!!
The WCNN is reporting on all the spills and natural gas releases […]
I just wrote a long letter to my Senator Toomey (R-Pa.) about the hazards of this KXL pipeline especially sisnce our refineries cannot even keep pace with the oil they have now, so we really do not need the line except to give Canada the ability to sell their dirty oil overseas. Senator Toomey was braging about how he wanted to approve this dangerous line, and I had to inform him how ignorant it is for anyone to support oil now that Solar and WInd power combined are actually cheaper than oil products for heat an other non-automibile uses and that it should be obvious that using it is a waste of money which should be used to start the conversion to renewables now. I doubt if Toomey himself will read the letter, but I just want everyone to know writing this kind of letter can get their attention if enough of us write.