Can Canada’s Tar Sands Industry Be Profitable Without Government Subsidies?

1. Absolute bullshit this video.

2. Fossil fuels companies contribute less than 2% to Canada's GNP and are subsidised billions of dollars by Canadian taxpayers. Those billions should be directed toward sustainable energy and infrastructure so Canada can remain competitive in the post fossil fuel world. They continue to rape us even though they are the cause of global climate change and should be quickly displaced immediately to limit further damage the global atmosphere.

3. NIce work on deleting my important comments guys.

4. Economic benefits of solar and wind will catch up to us soon enough

5. Great reporting on the Canuckistan Commies

6. Canadian Socialists, Liberals and Conservatives support oil sands, whodathunkit?

7. In the last 10 years, world emissions went up 10% and world energy use went up 15% says BP.
   
   In the next 10 years, they are projected to go up the same amount says BP.
   
   Claire Fyson says we must reduce emissions 50% in 10 years to avoid 1.5 C.
   
   Stefan Rahmstorf says we must reduce emission 100% in 20 years to avoid 2 C.
   Runaway Hothouse Mass Extinction gets triggered between 1.5 and 2 C says Hans Schellnhuber.
   Runaway hothouse mass extinction is unstoppable and irreversible once started.

8. The petrochemical industry purchased the Canadian government a long time ago. Read Oil's Deep State by Kevin Taft. Isn't corporate socialism grand?

9. Does anyone WALK to work, it all starts at home before leaving the yard and going about town doing this errand and that while hubby sits in car that is left running, polluting my lungs when I walk by that car and get a whiff of the exhaust fumes, try it and then we can stop the oil production, it is a slow transition that they are trying to allow every one here in Canada otherwise we shut down the roads everyone would be MIA.

10. From Alberta, thank you for this. On the second day of the climate talks, an ad appeared during the nightly news. It was "brought to you by the provincial government," and recommended a link:
    Keepcanadaworking.ca. In a democracy, how is this a valid role of government?

11. I find it all so surreal to see how out of touch fellowCanadians, and our federal government is in regards to a serious behind the scenes transition that is going on in Europe and China, major industrial powers. As a former co-founder of the New Energy Movement of Canada, I attended the 16th annual Energy Science and Technology Conference on alternative, sustainable electrical energy that is fossil fuel and nuclear fission free, in Hayden, Idaho this early summer. Attended by inventors, engineers, physicists, former military and government officials. During the breaks there was discussion how Chinese government officials had approached certain European countries in developing fossil fuel free technologies. European media has covered this before. In essence, the Chinese want to get rid of the internal combustion engine as a source of power, go fully electric with hydrogen and fusion technologies. They are serious about this. They have the infrastructure and the finances to do this. Other industrialized Asian and European nations will follow suite. So this begs the question, after spending 4.5 billion dollars of taxpayers money on transporting tarsands via pipeline to a market that will all but disappear within the decade, is there a plan B?

12. I am an Albertan. People in my city wear "I love the oil sands" t-shirts and preach about the glory of their corporate overlords in the oil and gas sector constantly. It's lonely here on the left. It is so good to hear Canadian government being critiqued in the news. It doesn't happen nearly enough

13. it is dirty oil that is the problem

14. And this is before even touching the massive externalized costs which plague our future.

15. Doesn;t a lot of the Trans Canada Pipeline oil go directly into Bellingham area and Cherry Point for over 60 years

16. As a Canadian, I hope the disastrous oil sand projects end. They are perhaps the greatest environmental disaster in the world.

17. The benefits should be in balance with all costs of restoring what was lost. Environment inclusive. It's another story of public costs and risks vs private profits. There is a fitting term for this : looting.

18. Someone needs to punch these oil pigs right in the nuts. And punch us in the nuts for not reducing our demand. Oh that's right, we're entitled.

19. Hooked on Carbon in every way.

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