British Columbia: Nigeria North? Videos

woofybigj Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Tell that to Kinder-Morgan, pipelining through Jasper National Park right now, going above and beyond, spending many extra millions to prove that the oil industry can do its work and leave a national treasure better off than it was before. Or tell it to the past president of an oil company I worked for who now works for Chevron, donated both his time and money to the United Way, still does. Ya corporations and the people who run them are the epitomy of evil.

firedragon2002 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - The Niger Delta is in Nigeria... it's a delta on the Niger river in Nigeria.

Inggahtahe Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - SHELL CANCELS 2008 EXPLORATION PROGRAM.thanks to all the support, native and non native alike. The Tahltan Elders are having there 3rd Headwaters Gathering Aug 22,23,24,25 2008. This year should be a awesome party with such good news,one more step closer to Victory !!!

woofybigj Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Hope there is a big bar-b-que, nothing like propane and propane accessories, please don't burn wood in the campfires (sequestered carbon don't you know) Hope everyone drives a vehicle, preferably one for every elder, nothing like gas to get you where you want to go. Most of all I hope I can contribute in some small way to the party, somehow as a working tax paying Canadian I think I already have. So please have a drink on me. I guess its back to Nigeria for Shell, where the business is easier.

woofybigj Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - What!?!...I'm serious... SOMEONE has to pay the taxes to make this land the liberal environmental, aboriginal placating, motherland (Ahem..motherEARTH) that we all know and love....keep beating us into submission...then learn Chinese because they will be your real masters soon enough...I am hurt someone voted that last comment down.

Papideano Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Down with oil! Down with Shell!! Windmill!!!!!

clayoilpatchman Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - What are you going to drive your windmill to work?

Papideano Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Why are shell activists thumbs downing everything?

clayoilpatchman Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - After the logging slowed down to a trickle over there I thought you would welcome the chance for your people to have employment and be able to start buisinesses and prosper. But I guess being native it doesn't matter the govornment (my tax dollars) will pay for everything you and the rest of your tribe will ever need. Like all the free houses you get that don't last 10 years before you have them destroyed. Shell will be back, and next time I hope they can develop this valuable resource.

superjudge77 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - It is obvious from your argument that the only reason you hope this area is developed is for your stereotypical view and racist disdain for persons with a First Nations background. Believe it or not, there are actually a lot of "good white people" that are against this project as well. And no, we are not all tree huggers with ratty dreadlocks and smell of patchouli.

superjudge77 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Supporters include loggers, hunting and fishing outfitters and guides; all people who I'm sure fit into your view of what a good strong and white Canadian male should look like. Not all areas that contain natural resources need to be developed. These areas are not only valuable because they contain these resources and it is too bad that people can't look past the ends of their noses, or their jacked up F-350s, to see this.

superjudge77 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - The true value is intrinsic and inherent in the area itself. The true value of these headwaters to the west coast of North America are much more than any value Shell Canada could place on it or profit from it. As such it is priceless and should be left alone.

clayoilpatchman Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Most of these people have no idea what CBM is about and will not educate themselves to the truth.

clayoilpatchman Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Lets break that down loggers- they have little or no understanding of the enviornment just look at their cutblocks and the mess left behind. Guides for hunting and fishing are only interested in their own profit and could care less about the animals, fish, or the residents that have the rights to harvest these animals or fish, or the enviornment, from my experiences.

woofybigj Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - When are truths racist? Why are basic facts that are common to so many reserves so un-politically correct when they are pointed out? And why is the commenter labelled a racist? I have worked on them, around them and some of my family came from them. Reserves are what they are and until the defacto dictatorships called chief and council are outlawed the nepotism won't stop and the poverty will not end.

woofybigj Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - So what you are arguing is that all supporters of resource extraction and industrial development drive "jacked up" F350's, are white, are male and if I read into your pithy points correctly...must be Redneck's? Wow I didn't know that environmentalists (of which you certainly are, I just have to assume that) were so biased by their own stereotypical views of people they don't agree with.

woofybigj Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Whose land is sacred? I am going to start a group or "tribe" if you will to protest the habiation of the greater metropolitan area of Vancouver. Some of my ancestors came from that place, the current residents have sullied and despoiled the land. I want them all out, they are not protecting it in a way I decided is best. You have absolutely no reason to argue with me because I am right and you are wrong. The true value is intrinsic and inherent to the area itself, as such it is priceless.

clayoilpatchman Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Around 2:50 on the video I notice that old native woman wearing store bought clothes, if the natives are so into their roots and tradition why is she not wearing hides, mocassins and traditional clothing. Or do they even know how to make them anymore? Natives seem to want all the benifits of the new world clothes, cars, modern firearms and fishing nets, houses built with our tax dollars yet they claim to want thing the way they were. It would seem NOT!

superjudge77 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Obviously you don't know Canadian history. Natives were shipped off to residential schools so they could be assimilated within "Canadian" culture. The Canadian government tried to kill their culture; genocide. They were quite happy wearing "traditional clothing" until the government forced them into suits and "store bought clothes". Now that they fight to be able to return to more traditional ways of life, which you seem to advocate,you also support the destruction of their means to do this

clayoilpatchman Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - I think you missed my point. The natives were put into these schools and what not upwards of 100+ years ago, today there is nothing stopping them from making traditional clothing and hunting and fishing with traditional means, which they do not do.

woofybigj Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Great, I got thumbed down because someone doesn't know what "nepotism" means. Let me dumb it down for you: It means the Chiefs and their families steal and misappropriate the money meant for their tribes welfare. They take several trips per year at Indian and Northern Affairs expense to attend conventions and fact finding tours only to golf their time away and stay in the finest hotels. I know several who do it all the time, its a way of life, maybe even a new "traditional" way of life.

dntgiveupnow Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - ALL of you need to take some BEFORE/AFTER pictures of the basin and then take a trip to Nigeria to see what Shell is doing for the people there. I visited Port Harcourt and felt the pollution, saw the pollution and smelled the oil in the air. Shell went back on and continue to defy their promise to protect the environment in Nigeria. Do we want this for our beloved Canada? Do we want to let Shell spoil our land and then jet home with $ in their pockets? Our gov't had better be prepared!

takuarm Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Do you eat, do you drink water, do you breath the air? Did you even consider the fact that what they are doing is irreversable? Do you live in this area? No, so what do you care about? Another case of beer? Can't make beer without drinking water? Or did you know that?

woofybigj Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Shell has operated in your beloved Canada for over 50 years. You want before and after pictures? I can do that, I have built many CBM sites on sensitive native prairie, the permantaly disturbed area is about 3m2 on the rest the soils and vegetation is still intact. Even in forested land I can show you reclamation projects where you would never know any thing was done, the trees are smaller yes, but give them 20 years and people like you will be clamoring for it to be a protected natural area

haylon6 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Contacting Shell will do little, you will be dished off to their public relations office and it will end there. Instead we should try bring the CEOs and Project Managers of these juggernauts up on murder charges for the deaths theyve had a hand in. This is the only way to stop these companies. They may not care about you or the envirmnent but hold these guys responcible and they ll move to save their own skins everytime, and maybe think twice about unrestricted exploitation of our world.