Posted on 10/31/2016 9:01:14 AM PDT by bananaman22
Nearly six months after massive wildfires close to Canada’s oil sands forced one of the largest evacuations in the country’s history, affecting production, Leonardo DiCaprio’s new climate-change documentary threatens to bring unwanted, negative attention to the industry.
Critics are already referring to the scenes shown in the film, particularly an aerial of the oil sands, as “terrifying”.
Fisher Stevens, director of Before The Flood, which has been in the works since 2014, recently told Canadian Press he was "really horrified" by how the landscape looked in north-eastern Alberta.
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Wonder if any Canadians oil/fuel was used for his private chartered jets, for his rented yachts???
National Post, December 10, 2015
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attracted widespread derision from the people of Calgary after he cited the city’s famously unusual weather as “terrifying” evidence of climate change.
“We would come and there would be eight feet of snow, and then all of a sudden a warm gust of wind would come,” DiCaprio told Variety.com, describing it as a “scary” vision of things to come.
“It’s terrifying, and it’s what people are talking about all over the world. And it’s simply just going to get worse.”The locals were saying, ‘This has never happened in our province ever.’
DiCaprio hasn’t got a clue and they are not talking about it all over the world. The clown never heard of a “Chinook”. Every local has.
( Chinook winds, they are sudden gusts of warm, coastal air that coarse over the Rocky Mountains, leaving a trail of instant snow melt.)
DiCaprio has been scamming the environmental guys and pocketing their cash while having extravagant parties around the world. At one party he showed a film about exotic fish being endangered and then they sat down and served the same types of fish to the guests. You can’t make this stuff up. The cognitive dissonance on the left is off the charts. Oh, and he has refused to give back any of the money to the useful dupes that funded him.
YouTube is also constantly pimping this junk.
Why is DeCaprio bothering to run this scam? I mean, taking money from stupid libs (and anyone who believes in AGW is a stupid lib) is all OK with me. But can’t he make more money through his acting skills, which are actually pretty decent?
PS And it is a SCAM.
Or for getting enough rare earth ore to build his jets’ engines from?
“Carbon-free whale blubber.”
Been done. Cummins Diesel furnished the engines for an arctic expedition once and test ran them on whale oil. The idea was if the explorers ran out of fuel they could harvest their own.
people who reject reason and reality are chronically terrified
No? Well, if he doesn't believe what he's saying, then why should I?
More or less that is true. I was trying to think the other day what Canadian industries actually create jobs and make money in our economy, and are not on government handouts (like Bombardier).
LOL! Well, knock me down with a feather. I thought that would be verbotem and the tree-huggers would rather curl up in a fetal position and freeze to death rather than harm a whale.
All the extraction industries of Canada pay for the shield of virtue known as your welfare state. Watched a show about some awesome lumberjacks cutting down some old growth fir and in this country our virtue signalers would have had a cow and then tied themselves to the tree.
#4 Like the correct spelling of “Terryfying”........
Banks and insurance still contribute I suppose? Manufacturing not so sure?
The pits are being restored, as the oil is extracted. The environment of the restored land is better than the original -- because a lot of the bitumen has been removed. Anywhere else, the bitumen in the ground would be considered toxic pollution. Extracting it amounts to an environmental cleanup.
I should have added that this was a long time ago.
I yield to a Canadian to how the money flows and to whom. But it does flow and it does have a total so selling old growth fir for export does help Canada’s bottom line and allows them some virtue signaling at the expense of the poor Spotted Owl.
He played himself in Gilbert Grape.
I just saw his latest, where he gets raped by the bear.
Like Harambe, I ended up feeling bad for the bear.
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