Tar Sands: More Oil Than Saudi Arabia (Lefties Protest Alberta As Major Petro Power Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 06/16/2007 | Ted Byfield

[goldstategop]

Alberta is the new petro power - with proven oil reserves that may exceed that of Saudi Arabia. And the Left is against this development. You would think they would welcome the prospect of cheaper gas from a friendly neighbor. Yet the chance to improve the quality of life gets them into a fighting mood. We haven't seen this much passion from the Left since Algore discovered polar bears stranded on an iceberg.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Daralundy]

There may be better ways to supply oil, but the environmentalists have blocked them.

[FremontLives]

Why doesn’t GWB just admit this is all about Oil and ANNEX ALBERTA. We already film all of our gay cowboy movies there anyway.

[Cacique]

The left wants only enough for the ruiling leftist elites to live in comfort while the rest of us are relegated to live like peasants. All that excess oil might mean that the masses might get uppity if their standard of living and education gets high enough to see through their scam.

[patriciaruth]

It’s not mining; it’s a toxic waste dump clean up.

[neb52]

That’s a good point! Can anything be built on the tar sands in its natural state?

[mmanager]

I have been to Ft. McMurry several times. The by-product is pure white sand which is put back in the pit.

They are predicting a shortage of workers in the range of 15,000 in the near term. Truck drivers are being paid 100K/yr.

[Straight Vermonter]

I wonder why Alberta doesn't secede and stop paying Canadian taxes.

[sittnick]

I wonder why Alberta doesn't secede and stop paying Canadian taxes.

There's been a small but serious seccesionist movement for years. I think Harper's election has slowed down the movement a bit. If you must be in Canada, Alberta's the best place to be.

[Thermalseeker]

You would think they (the leftists) would welcome the prospect of cheaper gas from a friendly neighbor.

Only if they were interested in seeing the USA and Canada prosper. We both know when it comes to the Leftists that isn't the case. What they are really fighting for is the abject failure of capitalism entirely. We also know that Leftists aren't the least bit concerned about pollution when they can't see it, like in Saudi Arabia or Iran......out of sight, out of mind (assuming they have a mind).....

[rightwingextremist1776]

Save the earth...beat the snot out of an environ-mentalist today! I really hate the green movement.

[sittnick]

Last week a small circle of protesters at Rimbey in central Alberta, several under the age of 12, all with their mouths symbolically taped to protect them from "emissions,"

aCTUALLY, THEY ARE PROTECTING THE PLANET FROM THEIR co2 EMISSIONS!

[Fireone]

Don’t lose sight of the investment potential here...there
are many Oilsand opportunities springing up as we speak.
One I know of, OilSands Quest (BQI/AMEX) is about to go
crazy this Fall. Do some research and prosper. Look at past performance of SU (Suncor/NYSE) to see what can happen. These are life changing events!

[Alberta's Child]

It was a symbolic gesture and a seemingly pointless exercise, but it was a start. Rimbey, however, is more than 300 miles away from the tar sands.

LOL. Rimbey is "ranch country," not "oil country."

It's worth noting that the tar sands region has other serious limitations beyond job shortages, lack of adequate housing, etc. At some point it's going to be very difficult to supply adequate power to all those operations up there.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Start filing lawsuits against the environmentalists. Bankrupt them.

Then they will go away.

The only way to beat a Communist is to bankrupt them. Reagan knew this. That’s what made him great.

[Noumenon]

There’s no love lost between Western Canada and Toronto.

[painter]

Bump

[norraad]

Just about anywhere has as much oil as saudi's hole.

It's not about that, it's about relationships behind the scenes and behind the curtains (remember footage Bush all kissy kissy w/towelhead oil buddies?).

Hell, for that matter, if it mattered we'd be suckin' more from the gulf of Mexico, but no00000000!!!!, we're gonna let Cuber suck it out from under us and "give" to china so they can get some new cars.

Something has sure made us stupid, maybe it really is that aspen.

[patriciaruth]

See mmanager’s post number 7.

Wonderful to clean up all that tar and leave nice sand behind!

[patriciaruth]

You do a lot of touchy feely stuff yourself, so why criticize the President for actions before he started to be the worst enemy of autocratic governments in the Middle East?

And it isn’t like he didn’t have a terrific energy bill that Cheney crafted during his first year in office. If those measures had been enacted, we’d be well on the road to energy independence from the Saudis.