Canadian Envir(oil)ment Criminal Peter Kent is a Bald-Faced, Rat-Bastard LIAR

Glenn MacIntosh | February 11, 2011

Canada
John Baird: Liar!
Peter Kent
Stephen Harper
Tar Sands

Feb. 8, 2011 -- Canadian Minister of the Environment, Peter Kent:
 

"...we have a plan, and the plan is working."

"...Canadians are proud of uh, of the uh, Canadian oil sands as a natural resource that
is well regulated and it is responsibly administered, uh, in a, in a uh, environmentally
sensitive and sustainable manor."

If "Canadians" have ever characterized their collective feeling about Alberta's Athabasca tar sands, we doubt that "proud" would have been near the top of the list.  Contrary to Mr. Kent's statements, tar sands development and extraction is NOT "well regulated and responsibly administered...in an environmentally sensitive and sustainable manor.", but it IS very well encouraged and subsidized by the federal government.

This matters because, at present, the world's atmosphere is on an accelerating course to reach a state of potentially unsurvivable, runaway global heating and climate breakdown extremes DURING THE LIVES OF TODAY'S CHILDREN and only EMERGENCY international action at EMERGENCY (world-war time) speed *may be* proportional enough to confront the scale, scope and urgency of this unprecedented threat.

Given the lack of government and corporate action to address the convergent impacts of the climate, energy and population crises despite the clear, present and known dangers they pose RIGHT NOW, we are all witness to the greatest crime against humanity, most life and most future life -- EVER.

Since Mr. Kent's utterances could not be much further from the truth, we find his comments to be more than a little offensive and feel that it is our moral obligation to characterize him as the bald-faced, rat bastard LIAR and shill for big oil (and Stephen Harper) that he is.

Please find more details about how tar sands KILL in the resources below.
 

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ecoSanity Founder Glenn MacIntosh is

a Film / TV industry escapee turned organizer, activist, advocate for emergency int'l action at emergency (warp) speed to confront the climate, energy, population, democracy, justice crises.
A proponent of peaceful civil disobedience / direct action, Glenn has been an arrested participant in Greenpeace protests outside Cdn PM Stephen Harper's res, and the fed Parliament bldgs.

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