Has it come to pass that an oil and gas pipeline going into Ontario may be stopped? Shut down? Closed? Was this foretold in scripture? Did St. Greta of the Hard Stare lay a curse upon the land? How can this be?
Yet so it appears. The governor of the state of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, has decreed for the good of the world environment that Enbridge Line-5, which passes through her state on its way to Ontario, will be closed.
The mind rebels. It is so difficult to understand.
For do not all the books of the law which govern the darkness of pipelines have but one target, and the commandments which govern them apply to one province alone: Alberta?
Thou shall not build a new pipeline in the land of Alberta. Neither under the ground, nor on the ground above, nor on rails. It is forbidden.
And thou shalt not support the ones that are already there, for it is a wholesome thing to condemn them, and ye will receive many carbon credits and a new bicycle if ye do.
For has it not been written in The Book of Greta: “Out of the hydrocarbons of Fort McMurray will come a great darkness, and out of the oil of Alberta alone, issues all pestilence and dread, and a great threat to the hummingbirds?
Elizabeth of Saanich, the visitor of cities, goddess of travel agents, whose air miles are as numerous as sands upon the beach, has given a warning in like words:
“The oil of the peoples of Alberta must layeth in the ground forever. Cursed be those who detect it. Cursed be those that buy it. And let anathema fall and darken the generations on all who would say otherwise. For they are shills. Let there be no Alberta pipelines lest ye perish.”
Here endeth the lesson.
The threat that by May 12, Gov. Whitmer will shut down Line 5 to Ontario, is so beautiful an issue it should be hanging in an art gallery.
For what have we to look at? We have two leaders, Greener than shamrocks, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Gov. Whitmer, who see themselves plucked by the goddess of destiny herself, as human ambulances rushing to save the Earth from global warming.
Who color their dreams with visions of every oil and gas project in the world evaporating, and a flood of solar panels and a wilderness of windmills covering the planet.
Every solemn word from the mouth of Gov. Whitmer echoes with perfection the rhetoric and environmental concerns of PM Trudeau, and his iron-bound conviction that global warming is the approach of Armageddon.
He and she are twins on this topic. You could not place the tiniest film of gold leaf, a single hair, between her deepest urgings on climate change and those of Mr. Trudeau.
Both hold their convictions on global warming with a fervor truly religious. Hear Gov. Whitmer on why she must shut down Line 5: that the possibility of a spill invokes “the state’s solemn duty to protect the Great Lakes under the public trust doctrine.”
However, for Trudeau, this pipeline is a perplexity. For you see, Line 5 is not a pipeline OUT of export-blockaded Alberta, heading to the U.S. and hoping for a better market.
Line 5 is a pipeline INTO Ontario, and — as Robert Frost was good enough to supply the phrase — that “has made all the difference.”
To oppose shutting it down, as he electorally is obliged to do, he must like the windcock on the church steeple, swing around 180 degrees.
It simply cannot be that on his watch the natural energy needs of the “greatest” province are impaired. He must with the same vigor he applies to stopping oil from getting out of Alberta now man all stations to make sure oil keeps going into Ontario.
There will be no soothing words about how the manufacturers of Ontario can learn to “transition,” take up coding, or study the construction of windmill arms.
Those lullabies are only for oil workers. There will be no talk of a green new deal for Ontario (it has had one already, which in fact was a nightmare).
To fight for a 68-year-old oil and gas pipeline he must abjure all his rhetoric on global warming, perhaps put Minister McKenna in a state of shock, and even embarrass Joe Biden — killer of Keystone XL.
Trudeau will have to expose himself to the wrath of the environmentalists, compared to which the Biblical whirlwind is but a summer breeze or the flapping of a single hummingbird’s wings.
Read rest at National Post
Maybe if Trudeau was forced to live without any Fossil Fuels and any to do with Fossil Fuels then he can get a good at what its like to live without any Fossil Fuels the same to all those Anti-Fracking,Anti Drilling idiots
The Dunce-phin,s family has been invested in the tankers that haul Sharia Blood Oil for decades. Not hard to figure out where the oil will come from now.
Trudeau the Younger would lose office if Ontario voters dump him.
I’d say that’s a silver lining. The price of fuel doesn’t matter if there’s none to be had.
And I thought our country Australia was crazy with a national ban on nuclear energy – in fact anything nuclear, while it’s okay to mine and export uranium.
We have the same (more or less) with coal. Australia is built on the stuff but we can’t use it ourselves for electricity generation. We ship most if it to – CHINA.
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are rolling around the floor laughing at all of us, and this is happening while Biden is in the process of allowing the mad mullahs to build nuclear weapons.
The west has gone nuts!!
Its all Politics and Money instead of Kownlage and Logic if the two were cut of especialy the Money we would hear nothing more about Global Warming/Climate Change