Comments on: Focus on core mandate of running the city

By: Bob’s Your Uncle

Bob’s Your Uncle — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:51:16 +0000

If the CRD Directors, Councillors and Mayors are serious about ending fossil fuel usage and oil pipelines then they should put a Motion forward to remove all Gas and Oil stocks/shares from the Provincial and Municipal Pension Funds. Norway is about to divest of a trillion dollars in their gas and oil portfolios with the intention of investing clean renewables like solar, wind and geothermal energy.

Local politicians should lead by purchasing electric vehicles or using their discounted Transit passes.

It’s also hypocritical to be allowing an “Organized Criminal” company like SNC -Lavalin to be building the pipelines. They have been found guilty of spending multimillions of $ in bribery … therefore using investor and taxpayers money to further their noncarbon emission facade.

The 9,000 SNC-Lavalin jobs will not be lost. They will just be replaced by a company that is honest and transparent.
Also, the politicians could demonstrate integrity by replacing the word JOBS with the word VOTES.
The corporate media newspaper headlines (now supported by taxpayers) would honestly write that the federal liberals are worried about losing 9,000+ Votes.
If the Feds were worried about jobs they would not have cancelled the Energy East pipeline through Quebec. Canadians could then refine our oil on Canadian soil and act responsibly toward the climate change.
Eastern votes matter, Western votes do not!

By: J. Canuck

J. Canuck — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:36:26 +0000

I find it odd that ostensibly intelligent people think there is a legal case to be made against those who provide a product that consumers need or want. The oil and gas companies don’t force anyone to buy their products.

Maybe there is a case for going after companies that generate electricity using fossil fuels. Many electric utilities build dams for the same purpose … why not go after them as well?

I don’t see much evidence that consumers are cutting back on traveling/buying/eating/procreating because of how it might be affecting the environment. Imagine the screaming we would hear if our high consumption lives were interfered with in any way.

The problem with many of today’s politician is that they seem to think that day to day issues like sewers, sidewalks, etc are boring, everyday matters and as such don’t deserve consideration. Much better to signal how virtuous they are in attempting to solve a problem countries haven’t been able to tackle effectively.

Pedantically: “carbon syncs” should be “carbon sinks”.

By: Ken H Lane

Ken H Lane — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 18:03:52 +0000

For those who still believe that human activities producing carbon dioxide is responsible for global warming, or climate change of any sort, consider that government action(s) will have a negligible effect on our climate, but such action(s) will certainly have the public sector’s desired effect: increased tax revenues.
From the Global Warming Project of 2007 signed by over 30,000 American scientists, some 9,000 of whom with doctorate degrees, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane gas, or other greenhouse gases is causing, or will in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the earth’s climate.”
Those who continue to focus on global warming will be ill-prepared for global cooling, a trend which is now underway as the sun is into its low energy phase.