Shooting Birds: Oil industry lawyer pushes for shotgun over camera...
Now that the Olympics are over, Canadians have a new spectacle to follow---the very ugly trial of the tar sands oil company Syncrude over the shameful 2008 incident when 1600+ ducks landed and subsequently died in their giant toxic lake storing mining waste. You want to know just how tone-deaf the tar sands industry and their Big Oil backers are? Yesterday, in a trial, lawyers for Syncrude lambasted wildlife officials for shooting ducks with a camera instead of a shotgun.
Apparently, horrific images of oiled and incapacitated birds (like the one above) abound in the trial and that seems to have Syncrude’s lawyers particularly worked up. Rather than owning up to their own responsibility for creating the situation (they plead not guilty and say they couldn’t have predicted it), the company’s lawyers took exception with the photos being taken in the first place.
More info on Switchboard at http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jmogerman/the_crude_in_syncrude_u...
Apparently, horrific images of oiled and incapacitated birds (like the one above) abound in the trial and that seems to have Syncrude’s lawyers particularly worked up. Rather than owning up to their own responsibility for creating the situation (they plead not guilty and say they couldn’t have predicted it), the company’s lawyers took exception with the photos being taken in the first place.
More info on Switchboard at http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jmogerman/the_crude_in_syncrude_u...
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Comment by Gian-Angelo Gallace on October 7, 2011 at 2:59pm -
The Canadian Government forsees a future in which Canada does nothing except extract raw materials and ship them to other countries. Uranium, conventional petroleum, timber, heavy metals, and now 'tar sands' bitumen all flow out of Canada in huge amounts. True, Canada is a large country, but continually raping the environment for profit is hardly effective long-term economic policy. Canada needs new leadership (sorry PM Harper) that will work for the long-term economic and enviromental benefit of the Canadian people.
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Comment by Boldylocks on March 27, 2010 at 8:15am -
I just signed the petition against the Tar Sands. I can't believe the indifference of the Canadian government. At one time Canada was the United States role model of Environmental responsibility. I see they are easily bought by Big Oil. Yes, there is an energy crisis, but these Tar sands is a big sell out that they will live to regret one day as they lose what Environmental beauty they once enjoyed.
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