While Canadian citizens were busy posting cutesy pics of their cats and nauseating selfies from Boxing Day sales lineups, Stephen Harper's Joint Review Panel sneaked in the green light for the Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline project. I guess a democracy is only as good as its citizens.
Ironically, in the same week, images of the North Dakota oil spill appeared. Surprisingly, when you type in "North Dakota oil spill" in Google Image Search, the first 75 pictures that come up do not show you any of those scary images of mushrooming fireballs exploding in the air -- like the one below:
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| Oil spill in North Dakota, Dec. 2013 |
For me, David Suzuki's comments are the perfect thought-provoking summary:
"Coastal native communities are desperate for economic development. They need jobs, they tell us that every time...So the economy is very important to them. That's why their unified opposition to Northern Gateway is all the more striking.
They're telling us some things are simply more important than money, and no one is getting that."Ha! Try telling that to a nation obsessed with consumption and Boxing day sales.
