Love living where the two major parties argue with each other about who has the better plan to set fire to the planet.

Yeah. Teenagers tend to be optimistic about the ethics compasses of big businesses like oil... They underestimate greed too.

By the by, those kids who decided in favour of the proposed pipeline often recommended promises from oil companies to set up robust line checks with proper staffing, as well as a clear spill response, and investments in environmental protections and Indigenous communities. Or no deal.

Like.. Pipelines are safer than train or truck, sure. But even regularly maintained lines do environmental damage. They often leak some and there's not enough staff checking the full lines. Even without a catastrophic spill, it's damaging. Even with zero spill, it's disruptive. Even before emissions

Funnily enough I used to do a project in Physical Geography class, looking at the pros and cons of a pipeline proposal. Even pro-pipeline kids always saw that the risks were high and borne mostly by those with the least power, including Indigenous communities, as well as plants, animals, waterways.

I fully expect empty promises to be made by companies who are already adept at playing a shell game with moving money around to seem successful, and then they ghost or declare bankruptcy right when the bill actually comes due. It's happened before. I hope I'm wrong... Their "find out" era is overdue

That didn't work so well with the other pipeline... That Canada ended up buying to keep promises to China, despite it being an economic sink hole... The private investor(s) scrammed and left Canada with only bad choices.

No, no, be obnoxious, please. Deserved.

I change it to "and" most of the time.

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Where is the Layton effect when you need it! (We have needed it since 2011 but we really really need it now!)

Do I bother writing my useless MP? Ughhhh. I miss having an MP who does stuff.

I mean... He's getting a better treatment than I have the wizard series. That went in the trash.