Pollutants from leaking wells cause “cancer, strokes, dementia, heart attacks, heart failures, an increase in birth defects and premature births. . .every day the regulator lets industry dodge its cleanup obligations is another day that Albertans are going to face further harm.” #abpoli#ableg
"Pushback is growing among Alberta municipalities, landowners, and concerned residents who say the province is pressing ahead with a regulatory system that lets oil and gas companies dodge taxes, skip rent, and leave orphaned wells behind." #ableg#abpoli www.theenergymix.com/alberta-orph...
V good interview by Amy Goodman on @democracynow.org on @janefonda.com's relaunch of the #CommitteefortheFirstAmendment founded by her Dad, Henry Fonda, 80 years ago with clips from Judy Garland, Richard Nixon, her Dad, Jimmy Kimmel. Amy makes Jane cry twice.
“That’s not what you train for,” one retired Marine officer told me. (“I’m not a liberal,” he made clear.) “You’re hearing, ‘Blood makes the grass grow! Kill, kill, kill!’ in bayonet training, and then you send them to a U.S. city?”