She's right about everything. Oil and gas deserve some detail. The oil industry has always been careful to take care of its waste because waste is UNPROFITABLE. Refining is a hugely complex multi-stage process where the leftovers at each stage are reprocessed in a different way to squeeze out more salable products. Absolutely everything gets used productively.
Agreed, in Alberta the oil industry has a pretty good record of responsible behavior, something that they get little credit for. One issue that never gets addressed, is the difference between corporations where the decision making is done in some distant head office, vs a local industry where the decision making is done locally. Local Industry is always more responsible since they have to live with the results of their actions. When decisions are made in London, Wall Street, or Bay Street by executives who do not face any consequences for the down sides of their actions ...
Yes! This is especially true in petroleum where the headquarters of companies were in smaller cities like Enid and Ponca and Bartlesville. Oil companies and oil service firms were good public citizens in those places. Recently most of those companies have either been bought out by NYC conglomerates or centralized in Houston, so the local connection is gone.
There is this twitch in kind people to want to find moral equivalency between two sides in conflict; however, looking at our political divide from all angles, I am 100% sure that the division derives from Democrats and left political behavior. The Republicans only picked it up in frustration in realization that the crappy behavior of Democrats gave them the 2020 win.
Without getting into the weeds, the general analogy is like Pepsi is the Democrats and Coke is the Republicans and Pepsi starts a massive advertising campaign over all the airwaves and electronic media to brand Coke as using illegal underage labor, putting toxic chemicals in their products, owning manufacturing facilities that dump excess carbon into the air, their CEO is a misogynist, racist and fascist...and they trot out three females that claim he looked at them is suggestive ways when they all attended high school. Then Pepsi files law suit after law suit of civil cases against the Coke CEO to try and destroy his reputation.
After all of this, when someone says "well, yeah but the Coke CEO posted some mean Tweets, and his followers did an unarmed protest where some lost control and got violent with police" I shut that crap down and get back to pointing out the real culprit... Pepsi Corporation (i.e., the Democrats).
I'd be interested to see what it would mean to move that discussion away from a university setting and place it in a pub - not on Sparks street - not on Elgin - but in Vanier.
For those unfamiliar with Ottawa - I'm referring to Tara's comment that she's engaging in a national discussion. Vander is one of Ottawa's poorest neighborhoods.
She's right about everything. Oil and gas deserve some detail. The oil industry has always been careful to take care of its waste because waste is UNPROFITABLE. Refining is a hugely complex multi-stage process where the leftovers at each stage are reprocessed in a different way to squeeze out more salable products. Absolutely everything gets used productively.
Agreed, in Alberta the oil industry has a pretty good record of responsible behavior, something that they get little credit for. One issue that never gets addressed, is the difference between corporations where the decision making is done in some distant head office, vs a local industry where the decision making is done locally. Local Industry is always more responsible since they have to live with the results of their actions. When decisions are made in London, Wall Street, or Bay Street by executives who do not face any consequences for the down sides of their actions ...
Yes! This is especially true in petroleum where the headquarters of companies were in smaller cities like Enid and Ponca and Bartlesville. Oil companies and oil service firms were good public citizens in those places. Recently most of those companies have either been bought out by NYC conglomerates or centralized in Houston, so the local connection is gone.
Shhhh. Doesn't fit the narrative.
There is this twitch in kind people to want to find moral equivalency between two sides in conflict; however, looking at our political divide from all angles, I am 100% sure that the division derives from Democrats and left political behavior. The Republicans only picked it up in frustration in realization that the crappy behavior of Democrats gave them the 2020 win.
Without getting into the weeds, the general analogy is like Pepsi is the Democrats and Coke is the Republicans and Pepsi starts a massive advertising campaign over all the airwaves and electronic media to brand Coke as using illegal underage labor, putting toxic chemicals in their products, owning manufacturing facilities that dump excess carbon into the air, their CEO is a misogynist, racist and fascist...and they trot out three females that claim he looked at them is suggestive ways when they all attended high school. Then Pepsi files law suit after law suit of civil cases against the Coke CEO to try and destroy his reputation.
After all of this, when someone says "well, yeah but the Coke CEO posted some mean Tweets, and his followers did an unarmed protest where some lost control and got violent with police" I shut that crap down and get back to pointing out the real culprit... Pepsi Corporation (i.e., the Democrats).
Love this. Thanks for sharing!
I'd be interested to see what it would mean to move that discussion away from a university setting and place it in a pub - not on Sparks street - not on Elgin - but in Vanier.
For those unfamiliar with Ottawa - I'm referring to Tara's comment that she's engaging in a national discussion. Vander is one of Ottawa's poorest neighborhoods.
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