“(…) (For the record, the oil industry is not a jobs machine. It is the world’s most capital-intensive industry and earns more than 10 per cent of the world’s GDP. But it only employs less than one tenth of one per cent of the world’s workers. In Canada it accounts for but 1.8 per cent of the workforce.)
No matter. TransCanada’s immodest economic models, for example, piped out job estimates 13 times greater (199,000) than those done by U.S. State Department (5,000 to 8,000) over a three- year period.
A 2011 Cornell University Global Labor Institute report crunched the numbers too and revealed that the project’s construction would inject no more than $4-billion into the U.S. economy and only create between 2,500 and 4,650 jobs. (…)”
Update 12 JAN: Hervorragende Richtigstellung in “The Ottawa Citizen“, numbers and all:
“If there were a global competition for the most brazen and preposterously transparent attempt by a ruling political party to change a necessary subject of national debate with alarmist distractions and hubbub, the Conservative escapade engineered in Ottawa these past few days really deserves some kind of grand prize.”
Update 11 JAN: The Toronto Star calls a Cabinet Minister using that rhetoric “nuts”. This passage contains a more realistic assessment: “The parody lies with the fact that Canada’s oil industry is dominated by multinationals. That means there will indeed be a lot of big-money foreign interests pushing the three-person federal review panel to okay a pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to a tanker port at Kitimat on the British Columbia coast.
Haisla First Nation Hereditary Chiefs Clifford Smith, left, Rod Bolton, centre, and Sam Robinson address a review panel during the opening day of hearings for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project in Kitimaat Village, B.C., on Tuesday.
America’s Exxon Mobil, Britain’s BP, France’s Total E&P, China’s SinoCanada Petroleum Corp. and Japan Canada Oil Sands Ltd. have all asked for intervenor status at the hearings. So has the South Korean conglomerate Daewoo.
But foreigners who support the pipeline aren’t the outsiders that Prime Minister Stephen Harper claims to be worried about. As Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver explained to CBC television on Monday, these are the good foreign interests.”
Update 10 JAN: As It Happens (CBC) hat ein sehr informatives Stück anlässlich der Anschuldigungen des kanadischen Ministers für Natürliche Ressourcen, Joe Oliver genau hier.
Update JAN 9: A reaction from Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada and MP for Saanich-Gulf-Islands in British Columbia, to Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister For Natural Resources, a response to his open letter, ranting in never known ways and demeaning First Nations and other critics of the pipeline, as well as the democratic environmental assessment as a whole required in the process.
“Most fundamentally, shipping unprocessed bitumen crude out of Canada has been attacked by the biggest of Canada’s energy labour unions, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, as a bad idea. The CEP estimates it means exporting 40,000 jobs out of Canada (figure based on jobs lost through the Keystone Pipeline). They prefer refining the crude here in Canada. (The CEP is also not a group to which your allegation that opponents of Gateway also oppose all forestry, mining, oil, gas, etc is anything but absurd.)”
Temporary jobs, not more than 4000 over the course of two years, and gas is expected to be more expensive, as dirty Canadian tarsands oil will go toward EXPORT. Check out what is really going to happen, coz the oil barons scheming this up will tell you anything but this:
IRAN – a beautiful, ancient culture with many uprisings of educated young citizens claiming their rights – where were u then with your soldiers? These sprouts of Eden have been Spring Snowflakes breaking through an ideological dark in what is now the melting slosh of the former ice ages of the Middle East and the US. They need and deserve our support.
This is what I heard on CFRA 2day. It was host Michael Harris more or less, original wording may vary, assessing Canada’s PM’s earlier claim, IRAN “wants” to use nuclear bombs.
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That Irak supposingly had “weapons of mass destruction” is the BIGGEST LIE of the past decade.
Stephen Harper needs to be challenged, because he stepped over the line, claiming on a program where he knew he wouldn’t be, that Iran “wants” to use a nuclear bomb, to herd Canadians into the acceptance of a pre-emptive strike against Iran. Just like British PM Tony Blair and US president George W Bush at the time, today’s leaders again need something to change public opinion to favor war.
How is it believable, that Iran will use a nuclear bomb, when that will inevitably result in their regional suicide? It is not believable.
They don’t want to be invaded, that is why they want nuclear weapons, you can’t have only one power in a region have those weapons, that just doesn’t work, besides all international efforts examining Iran, just like in the case of Irak, NEVER found any traces of such weapons and saw Iran comply with the norms set by the international community, meanwhile they had their scientists assassinated. If Barack Obama thinks he can go in there and do this, or have the Israelis do it for him, he is crazy.
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