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Title: Alberta launches rebranding campaign to counter environmental criticisms.
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: Alta_redneck
Date: 2009-02-25 07:32:49
Canadian

[Alta_redneck]

This seemed like a good idea when oil was $140 a barrel, now it seems like a waste of money. But if we must, I kind of like this one suggested yesterday.

Alberta. Cleaning up Gods Oil Spill, one truckload at a time.

[1Peg]

Alta_redneck wrote:

This seemed like a good idea when oil was $140 a barrel, now it seems like a waste of money. But if we must, I kind of like this one suggested yesterday.

Alberta. Cleaning up Gods Oil Spill, one truckload at a time.

I think we should take the blame.

[mtbr]

Alberta..it's all our fault

[tritium]

“Alberta: Fuck yeah!”

“Alberta: Home of the aggrieved white man”

“Alberta: Birthplace of tar sands and crap bands”

“Alberta: Texa$ of the North”

“Alberta: Oiled up and bent over”

“Alberta: Like Middle America, only in Canada”

“Alberta: You’ll learn to hate yourself”

"Alberta: Intelligently designed"

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[Alta_redneck]

tritium wrote:

“Alberta: Fuck yeah!”

It must suck to be an Aberta whore. You hate everything about the place , but you just can't seem to find that road out of town.

[tritium]

Alta_redneck wrote:

tritium wrote:

“Alberta: Fuck yeah!”

It must suck to be an Aberta whore. You hate everything about the place , but you just can't seem to find that road out of town.

Wrong assumption Alta_redneck.

It was a hard transition from Texas to Alberta a few years back and I voiced that opinion a little too much, but I have settled down and I am very comfortable here now.

Great job and co-workers, nice comfortable home. Can't ask for much more out of life.

Sure, I think Vancouver, BC is the best place in Canada, weather and location. But Calgary a close second with it's location to the Rockies and national parks.

I have also had the opportunity to travel around and see the Province, which has changed my opinion greatly.

"Alberta: doorstep to the Rockies"

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[Alta_redneck]

tritium wrote:

It was a hard transition from Texas to Alberta a few years back and I voiced that opinion a little too much, but I have settled down and I am very comfortable here now.

Great job and co-workers, nice comfortable home. Can't ask for much more out of life.

I couldn’t have described one better.
j/k Trit

Oh yeah and welcome to Alberta.

[bootlegga]

tritium wrote:

“Alberta: Birthplace of tar sands and crap bands”

tritium wrote:

“Alberta: Oiled up and bent over”

tritium wrote:

“Alberta: Like Middle America, only in Canada”

tritium wrote:

“Alberta: Texa$ of the North”

Very true.

Alberta, like everywhere has its positives and negatives. Despite its negatives, it's still a pretty damn good place to live.

[ziggy]

Alberta,the middle east of the west.

[poquas]

It's about to get a whole lot worse, no matter what kind of spin the Alberta government wants to put on it.

National Geographic will be dropping the equivilent of an enviro-bomb on the tar sands in their next episode.

"It opens to a threepage aerial spread of pristine boreal forest dotted with lakes beaming through the trees as a luminescent robin-egg blue. This is the “before” picture.

Flip over the fold-out at the front of this month’s National Geographic magazine and you’re confronted by the “after” photo, a Ground Zero of environmental devastation, with sickly grey ponds bisected by slick roadways prowled by mammoth trucks carrying nowdiscounted black gold."

"Add in photos of the tar ponds in all their toxic duck-killing glory, the gouging out of oozing craters visible from space, the inexplicably discoloured fish, the workforce crush and an opinionated narrative documenting the “riveting sight” of the area’s “dark satanic mills” which discharge chemicals that “sting your lungs when you get close enough” and, well, it’s a black eye which may never fade away. "

"But that’s not enough to undo the increasingly awful reputation of the messy extraction effort. And even though the tar sands have historically leaked into the bordering Athabasca River, one official’s plan to sell the project to Americans “as cleaning up God’s oil spill” [he was joking, I think] just won’t fly. "

[Yogi]

poquas wrote:

It's about to get a whole lot worse, no matter what kind of spin the Alberta government wants to put on it.

National Geographic will be dropping the equivilent of an enviro-bomb on the tar sands in their next episode.

"It opens to a threepage aerial spread of pristine boreal forest dotted with lakes beaming through the trees as a luminescent robin-egg blue. This is the “before” picture.

Flip over the fold-out at the front of this month’s National Geographic magazine and you’re confronted by the “after” photo, a Ground Zero of environmental devastation, with sickly grey ponds bisected by slick roadways prowled by mammoth trucks carrying nowdiscounted black gold."

"Add in photos of the tar ponds in all their toxic duck-killing glory, the gouging out of oozing craters visible from space, the inexplicably discoloured fish, the workforce crush and an opinionated narrative documenting the “riveting sight” of the area’s “dark satanic mills” which discharge chemicals that “sting your lungs when you get close enough” and, well, it’s a black eye which may never fade away. "

"But that’s not enough to undo the increasingly awful reputation of the messy extraction effort. And even though the tar sands have historically leaked into the bordering Athabasca River, one official’s plan to sell the project to Americans “as cleaning up God’s oil spill” [he was joking, I think] just won’t fly. "

OK Time for you to 'man-up! Tell us that you do not use any petroleum based products, and I forever will refrane from calling you a hypocrite!

You and the rest of your ilk!

If the 'world' quits screaming for more, and cheaper oil the market will dry up and the mining will stop.

Otherwise STFU!!!

[tritium]

Here is a link to a bunch of their pictures of it all online:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/ ... hotography

I find people to be pretty hypocritical, particually the geenies.

Most people drink from plastic containers, drive cars and wear clothes made of Nylon or make use of oil-based household objects.

We need and use oil in almost everything we touch on a daily basis.

If you want to condem how oil is extraxed from the ground, or environmental concerns associated with oil exploration, at least offer a solution or alternative to oil, otherwise you're just blowing hot air.

[tritium]

Yogi wrote:

If the 'world' quits screaming for more, and cheaper oil the market will dry up and the mining will stop.

Cheaper oil will destabilize the middle east.

Saudi Arabia has to pay for all that military hardware and army, without it Iran can invade and hold hostage the world.

Hey anyone whatch Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck: Worst Case Scenarios For America In 2014

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/upda ... a-in-2014/

[poquas]

Yogi wrote:

OK Time for you to 'man-up! Tell us that you do not use any petroleum based products, and I forever will refrane from calling you a hypocrite!

You and the rest of your ilk!

If the 'world' quits screaming for more, and cheaper oil the market will dry up and the mining will stop.

Otherwise STFU!!!

Deal. I’ll man up if you grow up.

I use gas because I have to. Just like the rest of the world.

Unlike you, I recognize the extraction process (the tar sands in particular) is the most polluting method possible which is causing some serious problems that raving morons like you can’t accept.

Rather than hiding my head up my ass and pointing fingers and calling people names, I’d happily pay double if I thought the extra costs to me would somehow mitigate the damage being done. It doesn’t seem to be the case.

So it might be time to take some of your own advice and STFU!!!