Friday, September 5, 2014

A Likely Story



B.C. Liberal leader
Christy Clark,
and Bill Bennett.
Energy Minister
Bill Bennett says
 the B.C. government
 remains committed
to clean energy but
the future of
the province’s
 power industry is
 more shades of
grey than black
 and white.
THE
CANADIAN PRESS/
Jimmy Jeong
http://globalnews.
ca/news/1414019
/energy-minister
-addresses-
clean-industry/
"the oil is a heavy
tar-like
 one that is, according
to award-winning author
 Andrew Nikiforuk,
so thick it’s like sucking
cold maple syrup
out of a straw.
 Nikiforuk calls it
 “dirty oil”
due to the fact that the
 heavy oil takes a lot
 of resources
 to produce and when
 burned it emits more
 CO2emissions than
lightweight oil"http://bcrainforest.com/
great-bear-rainforest/
great-bear-rainforest
-part-8-oil-sands/
Deputy Premier
Dave Hancock announces
 that he is the chosen
 interim premier,
 in Edmonton,
Alberta on
Thursday March 20, 2014
 following the resignation
of Alberta Premier
Alison Redford.
(Jason Franson
/ THE
CANADIAN PRESS)

Metallica (left to right)
James Hetfield,
Kirk Hammett,
Lars Ulrich,
Cliff Burton


















 

                                        


Nice day for a swim                          
Near Likely, B.C.,                                                
A tailings pond, on a whim
Go work your abs at the gym!                                                
While they kill our country, 
Have a skinny latte, to keep yourself slim
Lake Quesnel in Mount Polly was filled to the brim
With toxins like copper, and selenium
Heavy metal, not like Metallica's Sanitarium
For Canada, the beautiful, don't go out on a limb
While politicians destroy
The birthright of our children

Christy Clark a Liberal in B.C.
Dave Hancock an Alberta P.C.
A Progressive Conservative                                            
More an oxymoron, than a superlative

Wake up from your slumber
I hear you cutting lumber
Sawing logs are a cumber
Not a jam in high number

A tailings pond breached, August 4th this summer                                                                 
Another chemical spill, is worse than a bummer
B.C. Liberals, Alberta and Stephen Harper
All have been groomed, to make profits sharper

No dummy, not yours
Corporate cash, for off shores
Like Imperial Metal Corps. profits that soars
Give them your wallet                                 
To siphon every last cent                     
See how
Small 
It can get for
The 99% 

In Alberta there's Shell, Syncrude and Suncor
Hold up, wait a minute I got a lot  more...
B.C.mining culprit is Imperial Metal Corp
Government, special interests and the rules that they thwart
The Alberta Energy Regulator's a joke
Industry police itself and from cancer we croak                                   
Pembina Institute, said of fed action and Alberta
It's like it's none of our business, like it doesn't concern ya

Unless you are poor, government won't make you atone
A 10 billion liter leak, long term damage unknown
The Honourable
Diana McQueen,
Minister of Energy,
Government of Alberta
Imperial Corp. the
 delinquent mines
that they own
Since 2000, there were 49 incidents alone                                              
How soon we forget,
Media diversion makes us prone
Avoiding the real issues, like we're all stoned!
2 died in B.C. mines, families left to bemoan
Until there's a disaster news reports get postponed

Environmental autocracy
Regulatory hypocrisy
Betrayal of social contractual guarantee
Omission of what the public's general will decree
No one would allow them to freely kill
Environmental degradation continues downhill

Capitalism gone awry, it's over please go home

An oil-soaked American coot
is cleaned by workers
from Focus Wildlife
Canada at the Wildlife
Rehabilitation Society of
Edmonton on May 4, 2008.
About 1,600 waterfowl
perished in a Syncrude tailings
pond one month earlier,
kicking off a firestorm
of protests about
oilsands pollution.
Photograph by: Larry
 Wong , Edmonton
 Journal
Sorry this just in, we don't have a home
Only because we wanted it cushy like foam
Capitalism meant as an experiment or a stepping stone
Not a means to obliterate our ecological dome
Now Canada is no more like Ancient Rome

In the meantime stay fast asleep
Avoid real issues through 60 hour work weeks
Only to find you're no further ahead
In no time we're all buried and dead
Realize you sacrificed family for things
You sacrificed real treasures
And what the earth brings
You let them destroy our sacred land
So the economic agenda could go as planned
But we don't reap the rewards,
Because we all got scammed!
















 "Photos provided by a 
government scientist show
 the site of an oil spill 
in Cold Lake, Alta. 
The company that runs the 
operation says it is effectively
 managing the cleanup."
"The Cold Lake operations are 
on the traditional territory of 
the Beaver Lake Cree First Nation, 
which is pursuing a constitutional
 challenge that argues the cumulative
 impacts of oil sands industrial development 
The Neskonlith
Indian Band
 says it opposes
 Imperial Metals'
Ruddock Creek Mine
 because the company
 failed to protect
 First Nations land
 when the Mount Polley
 tailings pond breached.
(CBC)
are infringing their treaty 
rights to hunt, fish and trap.

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