Enough talk, let’s get pipeline done

Dear editor: The current protest by a few hundred people over the Kinder Morgan Pipeline is fueled by myths, misinformation and fake news generated by dissidents often funded by organizations like the Tide, Clinton, Rockefeller Foundations; or countries like the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Russia whose agenda is to keep Canadian oil out of world markets for the benefit of the U.S., Russian and Saudi Oil Industries.

Remember the world forecasts all show oil sales rising for the next 30 years despite alternative energy sources being installed at fast rates. Canada needs to continue to be part of that economic opportunity as world populations grow by two billion people during this period.

The risk of major oil spills and risk to whales by an increase of less than five per cent in ship movements is a red herring in the protest against the pipeline.

The myth that diluted bitumen will create more greenhouse gasses has been debunked as the carbon emissions are offset by federal and provincial carbon limits and pricing programs as Canadian oil would only be displacing repressive regimes’ production in the Middle East, South America, and Russia and so it has no net world-wide increase in CO2 emissions; this is another fake news myth used by the dissidents working to restrict Canadian opportunity to share in worldwide economic demand by growing populations.

For the pipeline to meet the stringent laws of Canada (among the strictest in the world) and the excruciatingly long and arduous process to get the National Energy Board, and both the Conservative and