Wednesday, July 28, 2010

AngryPrimate: Magic Taps

AngryPrimate: Magic Taps: "The magic taps are holding up nicely on my portion of the planet. I don't have to walk farther than my tap for clean water. I'm very lucky a..."

Magic Taps

The magic taps are holding up nicely on my portion of the planet. I don't have to walk farther than my tap for clean water. I'm very lucky and I know it. Luckier still I was born under a constitution that allows for free thought. As democracy rules this portion we are free to express our views.
It is my view that there are far too many sides on the outside of this sphere.
Easter Island is a nice model, and an island mentality is where we all should be headed island residents

We're surrounded by oceans with plastic rashes, and some seriously oily discharge. Industrialized air quality where the clouds get bigger but it rains less often. I envision a kinder, gentler fate for mankind... due to all the aluminium oxide that our planet has suffered we'll all develop Alzheimer's like symptoms. A world where coloring books are on the best seller list, if you're not busy napping in the sun you can join in the perpetual Easter egg hunt. The best part is it will be Everybody, not just the elderly we'll all be physically and mentally handicapped by our own environment.
And why not? I'm sure things can improve all over if we all forgot where we put our anger, and then lost our focus.
Where I am is a good portion of this worlds water supply. I am telling you "The World" that this water is under the very serious threat of an an unscrupulous industry. Collusion and connivance litter the blatant money trail right to our own democratically elected leaders. I didn't vote for this.
I think, If we supply a fifth of the worlds water supply then a fifth of the worlds population might want to have a say as to how we're treating their supply. Canada may not wish to recognize water as a human right, but the countries it ships to might.
The threat is drilling for coal bed methane, each well draws water and captures gas, then re injects the poisoned water far below past what their team will tell you is an impermeable layer.
Have a look at what coal bed methane projects have wrought. Flamable water is quite a trick.
My province has BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Petrobakken all looking to use and abuse your water. My politicians are clearly in connivance as a Province wide first nations moratorium against CBM was already in place.
Generating media interest is disheartening, you'd almost think they didn't want you to know,..
That used to be the case, but now we have the net, with an equally endless playing field, we can see for ourselves if we choose to do the research.
I'm a simple creature of habit, fortunately one of those habits is water, I'm rather fond of it and see very little appreciation for its life sustaining properties. How did money out prioritize water? Did anyone get that email...
I can't drink a glass of bills or change, or plastic.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

The New British Columbia

British Petroleum is the new British Columbia and similar to the crisis Bolivia faced, our water (and yours) is at risk. Denied as a human right in this modern country, water trades at $1.52 on the stock market. It only makes sad sense that the country with the worst environmental project on the planet would team with the worst offenders of industry practices. Lepers and pariahs share unapproachablilty equally. Just ask anyone who goes near the police lines that protect them.
In the situation of being stranded with strangers and limited supplies, would you trust your precious water to the most irresponsible, greedheads in the group?
Our province was handed a Billion dollars for green energy, BP managed to qualify by having a green logo I guess.... because wells that use 20,000 gallons of water a day doesn't sound very 'green' to me. Neither does risking an entire water supply in the pursuit of profit. Further to that we have simpler, safer methods for energy now.
One fifth of the worlds water supply comes from Canada and we are treating that very important stewardship with no more regard that a used wad of toilet paper. In fact, how does your new water conserving flush toilet and water restrictions stack up against 20,000 gallons a day? That's one mighty flush my friends, and that is just One well. A little research will tell a terrible tale of collusion, corruption and devastation,...oh yeah, and riches for a few. The rest of us go under the bus. When the world comes asking for 'more please' how do you explain that their lives are not as important as the dollars?