The plot thickens
It is plain to see that it is money — both current and prospective — that is driving what has become misnomered as our “civilization.”
The concerns of the individuals are overridden or ignored when major corporate or political interests are challenged.
Wonderful benefits — billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, absolute protection of the environment — are promised over a life-span beyond what most of us can reasonably expect.
We see all this same-old, same-old as David Black’s proposal for his Kitimat Clean Ltd. gains further boosts from the spinmeisters.
Unfortunately, the two main objections are ignored: transfer of bitumen goo in a safe and hazard-free way across a thousand miles of sensitive ecology; and the introduction of hundreds of oil tanker ships into one of the world’s most sensitive coastlines.
Stay alert. The plot thickens.
F. H. Horner
Qualicum Beach
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