tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11282727.post9014752265303088053..comments2024-03-09T04:13:53.858-06:00Comments on Accidental Deliberations: !!!***BREAKING***!!! THE FIX IS STILL IN!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11282727.post-13849373755656675752014-06-17T20:31:04.774-06:002014-06-17T20:31:04.774-06:00The question is what is the economic benefit of th...The question is what is the economic benefit of this pipeline to Canadians?]<br /> <br />The materials will be supplied from off shore.<br /> <br />The workers will probably be temporary foreign workers or workers who are foreign trained – what the government is pushing instead of training Canadians.<br /> <br />There will be very few jobs after construction.<br /> <br />Very little profit will accrue to the Canadian government. And very little to the Alberta government. They haven’t even had any help to twin that dangerous highway to Fort McMurray.<br />It’s not like they are Norway and getting a big bunch of money from it.<br /> <br />And practically nothing to BC, except the liabilities if there is a spill.<br /> <br />The additional ten dollars a barrel will go to the oil companies.<br /> <br />What we are not getting is any investigation into what benefits Canadians get from the present extraction of our resources. Only in the Tyee. Or Vancouver Observer.<br /> <br />And in my town we get to drink the toxins from the tar sands when they reach us.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com