This morning I got held up at the Premiere’s Stampede Breakfast on my way to work - not because of the breakfast crowd, but because of the protestors. Attracted by the Global TV cameras, there was a group for social housing and one for - well, it looked like Batman, but it turned out to be an anti-oilsands group. One of the members handed me a leaflet and said something stereotypical like “Join us in the fight, sister!”
The leaflet has such gems as:
- Millions of hectares of boreal forest are being chopped down for oil - most of it is going to the United States!
- It takes 5 barrels of water to make one barrel of oil out of the tar sands!
- Huge corporations are profiting from the tar sands and Albertans get hardly anything back!
I felt kind of bad as I walked down the sidewalk past them. Especially because I didn’t have the presence of mind to swing my work bag to my hip so they couldn’t see the big Esso/ExxonMobil logo on it as I went by. How awkward.
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