tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post3221322228843407297..comments2023-11-03T03:11:17.903-07:00Comments on Me, Boomer and The Vermilon River: Energy and the Tar Sands of Alberta. A Review from the Vermilon River.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-56326230378705763052011-02-18T07:05:00.383-08:002011-02-18T07:05:00.383-08:00Hi Bob. Thanks for the support.Hi Bob. Thanks for the support.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-3127109974459182252011-02-18T07:04:02.834-08:002011-02-18T07:04:02.834-08:00Hi Dixxe. Ypu're right the fight is constant.Hi Dixxe. Ypu're right the fight is constant.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-17474689405304646822011-02-18T07:01:48.604-08:002011-02-18T07:01:48.604-08:00Hi Hilke and thanks for the support.Hi Hilke and thanks for the support.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-70639722066276040052011-02-18T07:01:05.021-08:002011-02-18T07:01:05.021-08:00Hi Mick. All that as well as the changing weather ...Hi Mick. All that as well as the changing weather pattern in Australia. I don't think NA receives enough news about the problems of Australia. Keep the info coming.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-60051900944179806542011-02-18T06:58:38.759-08:002011-02-18T06:58:38.759-08:00Hi joco. I answered your post on my next post wher...Hi joco. I answered your post on my next post where I said that the cost of oil from the tar sands is rising and will mean that you can't afford to ship the DNA altered apple to me from South American or elsewhere.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-59104069168017122712011-02-18T06:55:14.846-08:002011-02-18T06:55:14.846-08:00Hi Kay. The real heros are the Suzuki's of the...Hi Kay. The real heros are the Suzuki's of the world. We need to take what we learn and go after our polticians and I mean after them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-9952325580466385382011-02-18T06:53:08.779-08:002011-02-18T06:53:08.779-08:00Thanks Gaelyn. We must manage the change as best w...Thanks Gaelyn. We must manage the change as best we can. The We is the people and our best brains who are not owned by the oil companies etc.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-16630870627849545122011-02-18T06:50:33.917-08:002011-02-18T06:50:33.917-08:00Hi Louise. As I said to EGW We change government a...Hi Louise. As I said to EGW We change government and I just want the "People" to stop consumerism while our brightest people help us adjust the economy so the change is the least painful.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-84537121050149549612011-02-18T06:46:54.918-08:002011-02-18T06:46:54.918-08:00TO EGW. David Suzuki is acting as a popularizer, a...TO EGW. David Suzuki is acting as a popularizer, as I am here. We change government!! See my next post for Suzuki's success.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-89554705349534476662011-02-18T06:43:47.752-08:002011-02-18T06:43:47.752-08:00Hi Martha. Appreciate the comments and visit. I th...Hi Martha. Appreciate the comments and visit. I think population is a problem, but the population in Canada and most modern nations is declining. In Japan the population is declining so drastically that they will have to look for immigrants, which they have never done before.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328368010048580769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-18590995745591103092011-02-15T15:17:02.621-08:002011-02-15T15:17:02.621-08:00Gary, first off thank you for your fine research a...Gary, first off thank you for your fine research and for posting this--I have been an activist for many years and feel that our cries fall on deaf ears--WE all have a stake in this-- it is ONE WORLD we live on--I have tried my entire adult voting life to chose candidates whom I thought would never vote against the enviornment only to be disappointed time and time again...now I see a Fascist Government leading the charge and Big Business is calling the shots. WE should be using solar power NOW-we all should be using electic cars recharged by solar charging stations...but DUE to the $$$$ still sitting in the ground we arent! In 1909 WE had Electric Cars in this Country--<br />Greed and as you stated the Nutzy Right "drill baby drill" attitudes are rampart in this land--MY solution in the article I just worte for Suite 101 is to Find out what MY carbon footprint is and CHANGE IT--image if we all Lowered our dependence on OIL--sales drop and we push forward into the future and way BYE BYE To our politicians as they grapple to catch up with us!! WE have to be the change and continue to fight the right!Sondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03485055844682296876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-67471803681787915822011-02-15T12:35:12.085-08:002011-02-15T12:35:12.085-08:00Gary, I too started out reading you WWB post and e...Gary, I too started out reading you WWB post and ended up with this. So depressing! I posted it to my Facebook and Twitter pages.Hilke Brederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18357741278362930033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-8592240019205352922011-02-15T11:10:58.453-08:002011-02-15T11:10:58.453-08:00I came to your blog to read the World Bird Post bu...I came to your blog to read the World Bird Post but ended up reading this one as well. When will we all wake up to the fact that once we have polluted our environment it's gone - and so eventually will we be! I read with interest about the Tar Sands. Out here in Australia the latest disaster waiting to happen is concerned with Coal Seam Gas extraction. It is proposed for prime farm land and nothing seems to be able to stop the mining interests concerned in it. The farmers just don't have enough money to make the politicians listen! I traveled out to Western Queensland last year and saw mile after mile of great farmland with notices put up by owners such as - "What do you want? Food or Gas?" The industry has the potential to destroy the water in the artesian basin which is the only guaranteed water in those western regions. I despair!!mickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08230845410313320080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-59914832910377458872011-02-15T09:36:45.065-08:002011-02-15T09:36:45.065-08:00We've seen it with GM, we've seen it with ...We've seen it with GM, we've seen it with Avandia, and Terfenadine/Seldane, we've seen it with foodstuffs....we can't win.<br /><b>Half a century ago </b>( 50 years!!!) Jane Dunlap, a.k.a. Adele Davis, pointed out how we are being robbed of important nutrients by food companies that replace innate vitamins with useless and damaging added vitamins. <br />Half a century ago Rachel Carson had her eloquent say.<br />Fifty years later little has changed and these brave authors were villified by the authorities.<br />Jane Dunlap's books were banned from libraries would you believe.<br /><br />We haven't learned to choose our leaders wisely in all that time.<br /><br />I for one am losing heart, but I greatly applaud what you are saying, and how you say it.jocohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08443120495036936430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-45123553350719528472011-02-15T01:17:00.634-08:002011-02-15T01:17:00.634-08:00Great blog, beleif is what we need, hang onto it, ...Great blog, beleif is what we need, hang onto it, it might grow.Bob Bushellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07819577478571292055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-89706472185107718482011-02-14T18:34:56.959-08:002011-02-14T18:34:56.959-08:00Way to go, Gary. Well said. Nobody listens to me, ...Way to go, Gary. Well said. Nobody listens to me, but they might listen to you. Don't know why people without grandchildren are quick to respond here, but I'm another one. However, my husband has grandchildren, and I have grandnephews and a grandniece, and I care a great deal about the world we are leaving them.<br />By the way, beautiful photo of Boom. He's a gorgeous dog.<br />-- K<br /><br />Kay, Alberta, Canada<br />An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous TravelKay L. Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09966266404058177742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-56274937622673033752011-02-14T16:14:38.934-08:002011-02-14T16:14:38.934-08:00We all have a stake in this. Unfortunately, I fear...We all have a stake in this. Unfortunately, I fear we'll have to get to massive crisis before a critical mass Will join to make change and adapt. Plus government and media Will have to crumble. What just occurred in Egypt should provide people of the world with a peaceful example to change.<br />Great post!!!!Gaelynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05784162697113288888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-2440901034102413142011-02-14T14:09:44.669-08:002011-02-14T14:09:44.669-08:00A well thought out and researched post, Gary. I, ...A well thought out and researched post, Gary. I, too, have no dog in this fight, as I have no children. And, I'm somewhat pessimistic, I fear, that anything constructive will be done to stop the rape of the earth for oil. We've known about this problem for at least two generations, and have done nothing. By 2100, I fear that those alive will be living in a far different and sadder world.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17692541935507155362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-76359575590855277352011-02-14T13:33:56.115-08:002011-02-14T13:33:56.115-08:00Great information in this post, Gary. The Tar Sand...Great information in this post, Gary. The Tar Sands scare the daylights out of me! Sadly, there is no way David Suzuki is going to convince most people in power that they need to change their thinking about energy. How they can deny the truth is beyond my comprehension.EG CameraGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803759124643467711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1378084381324788826.post-31128479778137019742011-02-14T13:32:54.331-08:002011-02-14T13:32:54.331-08:00Like you, I don't have a dog in this fight. O...Like you, I don't have a dog in this fight. Our only grandchild is the end of our line and he has not ability to understand what is being lost.<br />I care, though, I worry for the future of the grandchildren of others and all of the creatures that inhabit the earth.<br />Reader Wil has on her blog today a view of the world before electricity, and asking the question "do we need all of this?".<br />My observation is are there too many of us? Is it possible to solve our energy issues when there are so many people sharing the Earth?<br />I will be gone long before the bill comes due for our lack of foresight and government leadership.Martha Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15797951661712327698noreply@blogger.com