Sunday, August 8, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Ezra Levant: Trespassing for dollars - Slandering the Alberta oilsands is a very profitable business for Greenpeace - '...Greenpeace's budget last year was nearly $270 million. They need to bring in more than $700,000 a day just to keep the lights on. Slandering the oilsands is very profitable for them -- and it doesn't carry the risks that campaigning against Saudi Arabia's oil fields would, or China's nuclear plants. Which is why Greenpeace doesn't try stunts there. If their oilsands break-ins had costly consequences, Greenpeace would move onto other, more lucrative projects. Oilsands producer Suncor had the right idea when they sued Greenpeace for $1.5 million over their 2009 trespass. But there is a legal tool Stelmach has that Suncor doesn't: The Criminal Code...'
