May 5, 2015
By Joel Connelly
A hard-to-believe political earthquake (click here) shook the heartland of Canada’s oil industry on Tuesday night.
The “Texas of Canada,” oil-producing Alberta, elected a new provincial government of the socialist-leaning New Democratic Party in a landslide. The party captured about 53 seats in the 87-member Alberta Legislature; its highest previous total was 16....
The corruption of oil is finally gone from Canada. The new leadership of Alberta should make an expediant visit to the Oval Office of the USA in Washington, DC to discuss how tourism, especially by train and other methods of economy can be solidified to support this incredible and welcome change to Canada and North American.
What Canadian could live with the deaths caused by Trans-Canada and oil producers of North Dakota that devastated so many people. The oil trains are a menace and the pipelines are leaking and no one cares. The petroleum industry is a blight on this planet and now North America can have a slight bit more happier heart.
April 1, 2015
By Alan Woods
MONTREAL— The families of the dozens of people killed (click here) in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic train crash have received a financial proposal that would see them split nearly $80 million to compensate for the death of their loved ones.
By Joel Connelly
A hard-to-believe political earthquake (click here) shook the heartland of Canada’s oil industry on Tuesday night.
The “Texas of Canada,” oil-producing Alberta, elected a new provincial government of the socialist-leaning New Democratic Party in a landslide. The party captured about 53 seats in the 87-member Alberta Legislature; its highest previous total was 16....
The corruption of oil is finally gone from Canada. The new leadership of Alberta should make an expediant visit to the Oval Office of the USA in Washington, DC to discuss how tourism, especially by train and other methods of economy can be solidified to support this incredible and welcome change to Canada and North American.
What Canadian could live with the deaths caused by Trans-Canada and oil producers of North Dakota that devastated so many people. The oil trains are a menace and the pipelines are leaking and no one cares. The petroleum industry is a blight on this planet and now North America can have a slight bit more happier heart.
April 1, 2015
By Alan Woods
MONTREAL— The families of the dozens of people killed (click here) in the 2013 Lac-Mégantic train crash have received a financial proposal that would see them split nearly $80 million to compensate for the death of their loved ones.
The release of the legal and financial plan by
the firm overseeing the bankruptcy of the Montreal, Maine &
Atlantic railway signals that the ordeal is nearing an end nearly two
years after the train derailment and explosion that killed 47 people in
the eastern Quebec town.
The settlement proposal, which also includes
suggested payouts for those who lost property, income or psychological
peace in the disaster, is the result of months of legal negotiations
that may still be subject to last-minute demands and changes, according
to one lawyer representing the victims’ families. A final settlement
plan will likely be put to a vote later this month before it can be
certified by the judge who is overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings.
The plan that was made public Wednesday uses a
complex points system — based on age, income and whether the person
killed left behind children or a spouse — to determine the financial
damages that can be drawn from each death....
The immorality of the ruthlessness of the industry is just amazing. Life means nothing to them. Alberta will find eons of Americans that will look forward to the healing of the oil sands. Much of it is devastated and virtually impossible to restore, but, I know some people that will receive this change in Canada and are almost magicians when the natural is assaulted in that manner. There are a growing species of fish in Canada entering into threatened and endangered status. It will work. We'll make it work. It has to work.
Congratulations, Alberta.
