Day Issues Challenges
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 @ 10:34 AM
Prince George, B.C. –Stockwell Day, the former Minister Responsible for International Trade, has issued challenges.
Speaking at the Natural resources Forum in Prince George, he expressed a need for those in the resource industry to stand up and set the record straight and to push for a streamlining of regulatory reviews.
Reflecting on his days working in forestry when he was in his early 20’s, Day says the methods of resource extraction and reclamation have changed and things will continue to improve.
“There is a remarkable story to tell, and the story is not getting out there.”
“The industry has a message to tell and simply has to get that message out in a simple, better way” he says there are others who have access to the media and the messages they are delivering to the public are “not always necessarily right. We need the regulatory side, we need the environmental responsibility and companies are doing that in a fantastic way, but companies need to constantly up their game and get the good news story out there.”
He calls on those who challenge the natural resource industry, to not use one poor operator as the standard for the sector. “If you are against something, that’s fine, but stick to the facts.”
To the media, he called on media to be factual “facts are not boring. Be factual, be transparent.” He says while he understands media would like to be sensational in order to attract readers, viewers or listeners, there is also a responsibility to tell the good, positive stories and to set the record straight when necessary.
He challenged politicians “Policies have consequences” he says policies which impact the environment and natural resources have a hue impact on investment. “At the Federal level, I can tell you the elected people are frustrated with unnecessary regulatory reviews. These reviews can go on interminably., “ he went on to say “We need to, at the elected level for combing the environmental reviews. As industry people you need to be not shy to make these things are done with common sense and in a well timed processs.”
To the broader public, “My challenge is, just because it’s been reported doesn’t mean it’s true, just because an elected person says it doesn’t mean it is accurate. Just because an environmental group says something, doesn’t mean it’s true.”
He said the demand for the development of homes in India will be 85 million in the next 5 years. He says the growth in Asia is the most fantastic story especially when you think India will need to build 200 cities over the next decade to accommodate the move fromn rural to urban settings. He says Canada is well situated to provide the resources to help build those cities, but is concerned Canada will miss the opportunity because of “Unnecessarily long, unnecessarily drawn out” regulatory processes.
Day says he cares about the environment, but says if the unnecessary opposition was allowed in the days of the construction of the National railroad, that railway would never have been built.
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Enbridge has a pipeline leaking right now in the Gulf of Mexico…And guess what, the weather is too rough to get a dive team down to repair..BC`s northern coast is the roughest windiest coastline in the world.
http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article297138.ece
Enbridge have ZERO cred
“if the unnecessary opposition was allowed in the days of the construction of the National railroad, that railway would never have been built.” …..
and the numbers of worker killed at work would have dropped drastically. Getting killed at war is one thing, getting killed on the job is another.
from Hansard Tuesday, February 2, 1999
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“On the 350 miles connecting British Columbia to the rest of Canada alone, 700 Chinese people died. This means that two Chinese workers died for every mile of the railway.
Life was terrible. Accidents were frequent. Living conditions were so poor that no medical attention was given to the Chinese.
Winter was particularly harsh for these men from southern China who were not prepared for the cold. There were reports of epidemics and scurvy killing hundreds along the railway.
When work was completed on one section in the Fraser Canyon, Chinese workers were fired, leaving them in destitution, in towns along the tracks.”
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Canada/history_of_the_chinese_in_canada.htm
Day is speaking to a captive audience that like that sort of tough talk. I take it for what it is worth … nothing much.
So tell me, was the speaker in the Senate not telling the truth? If not, then what is the truth? Whose truth is the real truth? Does anyone know anymore what “truth” is?
And this is not possible today? We all just heard about a case of forest workers last year. And that is with today’s regs and oversight by Labour, by WorkSafe, by MoF, by BC Timbersales …..
So does Day even know about that? Not likely. Does Day care about that? Not likely.
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Embattled+owner+reforestation+firm+charged+with+fraud/5754242/story.html
Take anything that Day says with a grain of salt. He is a lame duck at best. He is supporting Christy Clark, which I would think, wont help her much.
Having just about everything in my household built in another country isn’t doing much for my enthusiasm about being Canadian. You know if we could refine our own oil we might be able to have a clean oil pipeline out to the coast and back to the east coast and even have a Canadian national energy plan ofour own. Goodness knows we would never be out of diesel fuel like we were a few weedks ago. You know it might even create some much needed long term jobs. IMO that’s not a bad plan.
I wonder what Day would think of my idea?
Isn’t this the guy who thinks creationism should be taught in schools?
I did not know Day thought ….
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2004/12/01/TheManwhoWalkswithDinosaurs
Yup, the man who walks with Dinosaurs ….. LOL
Of teachers they say, if you can’t do, teach.
Of politicans they say, if you can’t govern, preach.
Surefire
You don’t support Canadian made products, so their goes your arguement! Talk out both sides of your mouth much!
Surefire what is clean oil? anyhow did you read this from my earlier post about refining oil sands oil
Having refineries big enough to handle the increasing volume out of the oil sands would require five or six pipelines to handle the different products from the process. So to get the product to available markets would require multiples of five or six pipelines. So if we wanted to sell the finished product say to China we would be building lets say five pipelines instead of two.
Myself I wonder about selling off a valuable natural resource such as oil. In the US under the guise of environmental laws they restrict the development of oil reserves of which they have plenty. They have enough reserves of oil, gas and coal to be sufficient for a couple of hundred years or more. So to me it seems they are using everyone else’s resources while they hang onto theirs.
This pipeline will be built with the latest technology, much updated from the older pipelines. Where was the hoopla when Kinder Morgan just built a pipeline through Jasper. http://www.nacg.ca/project/kinder-morgan-pipeline-expansion-tmx-anchor-loop
As for the tanker, double hulled, two tugs in escort and expanded radar coverage. The Exxon Valdez was a single hull and here is a fact that is kept quiet. The US Coast Guard saw the Valdez go off course at the time and did not radio a warning as it was not in their mandate at the time.
Day must be trying to bolster his retirement portfolio. Once you leave public life, you should leave it. Unless you’re going to donate your time to charitable organizations, now that might be a good use of his time.
Leave the thinking to others, Day.
I have an idea. Let’s put Stockwell in a wet suit, give him a seado and let him come ashore somewhere along Cluculz Lake. ADBB.
Day turned out to be a very competent cabinet minister.
There is no reasn why we can’t build enough refineries in Ab to handle our own oil. I have no problem with a pipeline but I hate to see crude going to Asia. I also hate to see logs going to Asia. If everyone wasn’t so damn greedy, we would not be selling our raw resources.
It is costing us lost jobs by the hundreds of thousands.
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