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What Happens When Big Business Takes Over Government
What happens when an industry sets out to take over a government? Just ask the good citizens of Canada.
This past weekend, a train carrying an unknown amount of crude oil derailed in northern Ontario, Canada, spilling oil and causing a large fire. Twenty-nine of the train's 100 cars derailed and at least 7 caught on fire.
Canada's CBC network is reporting that an "unknown amount" of oil spilled from the cars.
The Ontario derailment and spill comes almost two years after the deadly oil train derailment and explosion in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, which killed 47 people and destroyed that town's center.
In part - because of these oil train disasters - Canadian citizens are pushing more and more for that nation to end its toxic addiction to fossil fuels, and to instead turn to cleaner and greener forms of energy.
Those citizens, however, and their protest efforts, have now attracted the attention of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
As a result of that going public, an intelligence report released by the RCMP on the growing environmental movement in Canada is gaining a lot of attention - and criticism.
The report specifically looked into Canada's growing fossil fuel industry, and its opposition.
Critics of the report have highlighted several flaws with its findings and construction.
For example, it downplays things like the relationship between greenhouse gases and global warming, and relies on newspaper opinion columnists for intel and information.
The RCMP report also claims that there's, "a growing, highly organized and well-financed anti-Canada petroleum movement."
But, the most disturbing thing to come out of the report is the apparent RCMP labeling of environmentalists and activists as "militants and violent extremists" who are part of the "anti-petroleum movement."
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... BIG Oil Chooses Profits Over Worker's Safety (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
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Daily Take: What Happens When Big Business Takes Over Government
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