Christy's Whistle Stop 'N Whiskey-A-Go-Go Tour Touches Down...

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...In The Land Of The Kossacks.

In other words, the evil leftist transit hub down south better known as The DailyKos thanks to a very strong piece on the Northern Gateway fiasco by a young fellow named BC Progressive:

...To be kind about it, the Premier is being foolish and has little understanding of the file.  Premier Clark and her BC Liberals have released five points of contention with Enbridge and the Alberta Government, which they claim must be addressed before British Columbia will endorse the pipeline project, which is currently estimated to be worth six billion dollars.

The demands are a nonsensical list of unconstitutional demands of another province, combined with environmental guarantees already required under the National Energy Board review that will potentially approve or deny the project.

These pointless demands have come during a meeting of the thirteen Premiers of Canada, and has led to tension at a meeting where the dominant theme was supposed to be health care and the creation of a truly national energy strategy.  Instead of being a committed voice in favour of sustainable economic development of our natural resources, Premier Clark has unilaterally removed British Columbia from the national energy plan meaning that any strategy involving the tar sands won't have the benefit of influence from British Columbia, which currently is one of the most environmentally friendly governments and provinces in the country...

{snippety doo-dah} 

...The reason for this posturing from BC Premier Clark is simple; politics.  The Premier and her party are trailing the BC New Democrats by more than twenty points in the polls, and the public is deeply opposed to the Enbridge line.  The BC Greens and NDP both oppose the pipeline without exception, and now the Liberals have decided that they'll oppose it, unless they can get the ransom they want.  The BC public isn't falling for such a transparent game.  

If the Liberals are opposed to the pipeline like they say, then they should simply oppose it instead of proving that they're willing to be bought off for some money.  Same if they support the pipeline, just support it instead of prostituting the province off.  Sadly, that isn't in the nature of the BC Liberals, who are eager to sell off everything of value in the province in order to fuel their ideology and personal greed and corruption...

Now, for the record here are Premier Talk Show's 'Big-Five' on the Gateway file that 'she' keeps on nattering on about in the Land of the Twitts:

• Successful completion of the environmental review process. In the case of Enbridge, that would mean a recommendation by the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel that the project proceed;

• World-leading marine oil spill response, prevention and recovery systems for B.C.'s coastline and ocean to manage and mitigate the risks and costs of heavy oil pipelines and shipments;

• World-leading practices for land oil spill prevention, response and recovery systems to manage and mitigate the risks and costs of heavy oil pipelines;

• Legal requirements regarding Aboriginal and treaty rights are addressed, and First Nations are provided with the opportunities, information and resources necessary to participate in and benefit from a heavy-oil project; and

• British Columbia receives a fair share of the fiscal and economic benefits of a proposed heavy oil project that reflects the level, degree and nature of the risk borne by the province, the environment and taxpayers.

With that set-up, I'll be back later with a post on the sucker punching of the Lotuslandian media from 5000 km away (aided and abetted, of course, by the laying of anaesthetizing leeches on their bruised and beaten faces)....

Just couldn't face writing it late on a lazy Sunday night after getting back from the beach with the guitar (the old one, no hole in pickguard, but close) and the Whackadoodle.

In the meantime, feel free to speculate in the comments on which local pundit will pick him or herself up off the canvas first and suddenly start spouting gibberish about how the Ms. Clark has finally turned things around because of her 'feistiness' (1..2..3..4) and her newfound ability to 'stand-up' for B.C.

Rumour has it, most of the smart money is on the guy that keeps trying to eat Chichester Cathedral*.


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And, no, we are not talking about this guy...

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