{"id":2930,"date":"2010-09-19T00:50:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T07:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2010-09-19T00:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T07:50:25","slug":"the-environment-a-republican-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/the-environment-a-republican-view\/","title":{"rendered":"The Environment: A Republican View"},"content":{"rendered":"

I swear!  Next Republicans will claim that the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is good for the environment.  It would be no more absurd than this:<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"republican-lies\" Two U.S. senators who toured the oilsands Friday say they were impressed by Alberta’s success in balancing industry with environmental stewardship, but critics say the government tour is biased in favour of development.<\/p>\n

Republican senators Lindsey Graham and Saxby Chambliss said the tour, organized by government and industry officials, has persuaded them Alberta is taking a conscientious approach to oilsands development<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

"The actual mining is a very small part of the landscape up here, so when you fly over you see a lot of nature and rivers and wilderness," Graham said during a tour of the Syncrude facility in Fort McMurray. "Once you get in the site, it’s just massive . . . It’s a kind of industrial ballet up here<\/strong>."<\/p>\n

The two Republicans and Senator Kay Hagan, a Democrat, also toured an area that has been reclaimed.<\/p>\n

"From my point of view the environmental issues are being addressed in a responsible way<\/strong>," Graham said. "I am for full-speed-ahead in terms of using Canadian oilsands oil in America."<\/p>\n

The tour did not include a visit to aboriginal communities downstream from the oilsands, whose residents believe their water, food and bodies are being poisoned by the operations. The senators did not meet with renowned biologist David Schindler or any other critics of development.<\/p>\n

Senator Saxby Chambliss said he was particularly impressed with the technological advances and reclamation efforts<\/strong>\u2026[emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Common Dreams<\/a>><\/p>\n

Here is a reply worth 5,000 words that demonstrates that these Republicans are liars.<\/font><\/p>\n

(Off topic: See today\u2019s Open Thread for Maher\u2019s New Rules.)<\/font><\/p>\n

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I swear!  Next Republicans will claim that the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is good for the environment.  It would be no more absurd than this: Two U.S. senators who toured the oilsands Friday say they were impressed by Alberta’s success in balancing industry with environmental stewardship, but critics say the government tour is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}