Another Way To Save The Polar Bears
Michael Buyers gives us another nugget of NDP wisdom…
Shut down the oilsands, NDP candidate urges
Tim Lai, Canwest News Service
VANCOUVER – Saying climate change may result in his two sons never seeing polar bears in the wild, a star NDP candidate from British Columbia called Thursday for the shutdown of Alberta’s tarsands.
“We have to do something to address the climate change crisis, we need to do so now,” said Michael Byers, the New Democrat hopeful in the key battleground riding of Vancouver Centre.
“We need to go after the big polluters, we need to shut the tarsands down.”
Green candidate Adriane Carr said she was shocked.
“I thought, ‘He hasn’t checked with Jack,’” said Carr. “Maybe Mr. Byers is running for the wrong party.”
NDP Leader Jack Layton said his party would introduce a moratorium on expansion of the tarsands, something Byers also supports, but Layton did not call for existing projects to be shut down.
“All three opposition parties are committed to a result that would mathematically entail the shutting down of the tarsands,” Byers said.
Why is it that all three of the hopeless parties are attacking the oil sands this week?
Great idea – let’s buy oil from the Saudis instead.
To get a perspective on this demand, consider that Canada’s oil reserves in 2006 comprised 4.9 billion barrels of conventional oil, and approximately 173 billion barrels in oilsands deposits.
At $70/barrel this translates to a bit over 12 trillion dollars.
I am really starting to believe they want to bankrupt Canada as a way to “save” the environment.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
“Saying climate change may result in his two sons never seeing polar bears in the wild, ”
Unless he lives/visits in northern Canada it is doubtful whether he would ever see polar bears in the wild – oil sands shut down or not.
What a bunch of non-thinkers these leftie enviro’s are.
Or maybe he thinks the zoo is the “wild”
September 26th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
If you vote for the Greens they will want to exterminate all humans in order to save the polar bear. If you vote for the NDP they will offer each bear their own free raft courtesy of the taxpayer. If you vote for the liberals they will shoot all the bears and turn them into plush rugs and blame it on the conservatives of course.
September 26th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Byers is an embarrassment to academe. He’s an instant expert in whatever field he so decides. He’s symptomatic of everything that is wrong with today’s institutions of higher learning, i.e. tenured professors whose grasp of the real world never existed, and who indoctrinate students with their distopian marxist worldview. Canada would be better off without the Byers of this world, but then, who would we hold up as the poster boy for the inflated-egos and utterly ignorant specimens who inhabit the social “sciences” and even more laughable women’s “studies” departments in third rate universities.