The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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Those r liberal organizations whose primary goal is not to land-lock Canadian oil for the benefit of the US, rather they r trying to strangle Canadian heavy oil production - period.

Production from the shales is a different matter and problems with getting pipelines built to make that production viable is due as much to the ‘indigenous peoples’ standing in the way as it is to anti carbon politics.

I have to agree with biotech researcher’s comment about Hewlett and Packard turning over in their graves. Same for J Rockefeller. Their trusts have gone completely wacko from the founder’s beliefs.

As for Lin Orr, he’s fully into the climate change game and is more of a politician than engineer or scientist and Stanford earth science dept is definitely more into alternative energy and climate change than oil and gas.