petrostate – For Our Grandchildren

Oil’s Deep State

February 15, 2019February 15, 2019 by Mel Watkins

How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming – in Alberta and in Ottawa That’s the title and subtitle, and twitter-length summary, of a recent book by Kevin Taft, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta with the Alberta Liberal Party, and Leader of the Opposition. He had … Read more

An Energy Super Flop!

August 20, 2015 by Peter Jones

For years our Federal Government boasted that Canada was an energy super power. Faced with the reality of low oil prices, the Government has abandoned this language, but its “energy super power” policies basically remain unchanged. The fossil fuel industry, on which Provincial Governments counted for jobs and revenue to finance education, health care and … Read more

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