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Chief

climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
Oct 21, 2011 - 12:46am PT
You're buying it.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Oct 21, 2011 - 12:48am PT
Well (no pun intended), it's a long ways to ABQ and Obama won't let me drill
off of Santa Barbara so thanks ya hosers ya!
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Oct 21, 2011 - 01:22am PT
The fact that the industry, aided by the Alberta and Canadian governments, has spent millions trying to rebrand it as the "oil sands" instead of the "tar sands" speaks for itself. Apparently they're rethinking this. There's simply too much information out there to show that in fact the stuff, when you dig it up, is like sandy tar (bitumen). Plus getting it out and refining it creates a big impact.

Although we're also very dependent on the oil and income, so are others, and in the case of the US, Canada is seen as a more reliable supplier than many others. Canada is by far the biggest foreign source of oil and gas for the US. And of course the Canadian oil industry is largely US/multinational owned.
corniss chopper

climber
breaking the speed of gravity
Oct 21, 2011 - 01:26am PT
If they could just lure more of those disgusting snow geese into the settling ponds to drown many would cheer louder for the Canadian oil sand industry.

apogee

climber
Oct 21, 2011 - 01:31am PT
I'd
apogee

climber
Oct 21, 2011 - 01:33am PT
BTW....you're welcome, cchopper.




























































Idjut.
corniss chopper

climber
breaking the speed of gravity
Oct 21, 2011 - 01:38am PT
Bubonic plague.. Apogee..or Snow Geese...what's the difference? ..zip!
apogee

climber
Oct 21, 2011 - 01:48am PT
Nice edit, cchopper. Glad I could help your education.
apogee

climber
Oct 21, 2011 - 01:58am PT
BTW...do you remember where this picture was taken, cchopper?


I'll give you a hint...

It wasn't Asia....
Timmc

climber
BC
Oct 21, 2011 - 08:51am PT

Good question.
But while we are on this road of short term greed and destruction, the pipeline south makes some sense.

No Enbridge pipeline to BC's mid-coast!!! Oil and salmon farming should be contained on land.
YoungGun

Trad climber
North
Oct 21, 2011 - 09:14am PT
Always amusing to watch an American complain about other countries' environmental policies...

Hey, how's the drilling in the Gulf of Mexico been goin' for ya'll? Any f*#kups lately??
sandstone conglomerate

climber
sharon conglomerate central
Oct 21, 2011 - 09:39am PT
Drill, baby, drill..or is it scrape, baby, scrape...maybe pollute, baby, pollute. The nobility and righteousness of driving to our crags where we can pretend immersement in nature with our oil based climbing products, or commuting to our hokey phenokey jobs, far exceeds any considerations for abstract concepts like the environment, the indigenous population, or something even more useless like "prisitine boreal forest". Gots to feed that monkey on our backs...
Charlie D.

Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
Oct 21, 2011 - 09:44am PT
^ amen, how many of us are driving to a crag this weekend??? We are all part of the problem.
couchmaster

climber
pdx
Oct 21, 2011 - 10:09am PT
I flew to the crag.

Yeah I'm a user :). Scrape baby scrape!

Hey -did anyone else bet an ounce of gold that the price of a gallon of gas will be over $5 a gallon by the end of next year?
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Oct 21, 2011 - 10:15am PT
Capitalism at its worst.


And there's no regulation...

So if it cracks, leaks, ruptures and spills...

Don't complain to Uncle Sam....

He's been sold too


Corporations are not peolpe....

Get them out of politics
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
Oct 21, 2011 - 10:55am PT
50 years from now when a barrel of oil is $200, post peak oil, there won't be any stopping it. Sad.
tooth

Trad climber
B.C.
Oct 21, 2011 - 11:05am PT
I have a lot of patients who work there. They fly up, work a few weeks at a time, take a week off.

Most of them are so excited as they are almost retired already, in their 30's. Money is really good right now. Business is great, they don't even blink when putting all their kids through braces, etc.







Just our little glimpse into how reliant we are upon fossil fuels.


A friend of mine who works at Taser says they are getting solar panels down to $1/w. How does someone in a city go about putting them into use? Can't imagine they would be welcome hanging around condos. It is more convenient to dig up the tundra somewhere where no americans or american politicians live.


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