Posted on 01/14/2014 9:42:46 AM PST by Dartman
Old man, we look at your life, and you’re not a lot like we are.
And if there’s one thing that average folks don’t like, it’s rich celebrities telling them what’s best.
Which is why we’re rolling our eyes at the free world rockin’ Neil Young.
Young gave a press conference opposing oilsands development at Massey Hall in Toronto Sunday , prior to starting one of his Honour The Treaties concerts.
He said "Canada is trading integrity for money," and that he’s embarrassed as a Canadian.
He’s raising money for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation to wage legal battles against the oilsands and the government.
It’s actually part of a larger Honor the Treaties American activist group.
Neil Young isn’t the only celeb on board. Daryl Hannah is also on the team. Yes, the same Daryl Hannah who’s been arrested protesting Keystone XL in front of the White House.
So needless to say, this movement isn’t about rational discourse.
That likely explains why Young says some of his more extreme statements, like this doozy he delivered last year: “Fort McMurray looks like Hiroshima.”
Really? More than 70,000 people died in the Aug. 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. That’s not including the long-term health impacts or the bombing of Nagasaki.
Young recently drove around in an electric car taking pictures of the oilsands. Cute. An electric car plugged into a grid powered by a variety of sources, including coal.
Low-income earners in rural Canada or on aboriginal reserves don’t need electric cars right now. Not when they're so expensive.
What they need is opportunities. A recent Fraser Institute report showed that of the more than 600 prospective resource projects planned for Canada, each will impact at least one First Nations reserve.
Let’s work together so everyone can win during these prosperous times.
That version of winning includes knowing the environment is being considered as we develop the economy.
Strict regulations are important. But guess what? They already exist.
The Joint Review Panel that approved the Northern Gateway pipeline did so with 209 conditions. That’s not exactly a carte blanche approval. That’s a high regulatory threshold.
Keep on rocking, Mr. Young. We dig your tunes so much, we’d recommend you not quit your day job!
I heard him on some NPR show yesterday. He is a genuinely miserable person. He goes out of his way to find ways to be miserable and thrives from misery. Worse still he works to make others to be as miserable as him.
Unfortunately, I have a daughter-in-law like that, so I can relate.
http://www.energy.alberta.ca/OilSands/791.asp
the oil sands development employs 1500 first nations people
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