Blog 51 Beyond Banksters. Further Final Notes and Quotes

Blog 51 Beyond Banksters. Further Final Notes and Quotes

 From Chapter 3  A 21st Century Trojan Horse**

"CPPIB {Canada Pension Plan Investment Board} director, Michael Goldberg, is also a director of ... Resources Works, which (according to its website) promotes "fact-based dialogue on responsible resource development in British Columbia."

Now that's what we like to hear:
   "fact-based"  (no lies, no propaganda, no "alternative facts.")
   "dialogue"     (that is, both sides heard from.)
   "responsible" (means "publicly answerable").

But, to quote Nelson again:

"Critics say Resource Works is a collection of PR flaks working especially for the oil and gas industry.
 "Resource Works is currently promoting the export of Site-C* dam-generated electricity for tar sands development in Alberta, enabling (as their website puts it) 'The expansion of the oil sands powered by clean energy to avoid  climate change.'" (My italics).

Wow! Sounds great!  The expansion of the oil sands powered by clean energy to avoid climate change.

     "Dam-generated!  That's hydro. Next to solar and wind,  that's the cleanest.
      "Clean energy."  Yep, that's what we're all after.
      "Avoid climate change." The ultimate grand global goal.

Three cheers for Michael Goldberg and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board!. 

But, Michael, isn't the tar/oil sands one of the most polluting carbon sources in the world?

No, no, no, Not if you use clean hydro power to produce it.

Oh? So it's only when the oil is refined from the tar and is actually burnt into the atmosphere that it pollutes! OK, I think I am getting it. Since this oil may be imported into the United States with President Trump's pipeline, and since it is going to be refined and burnt there or be refined there and be sold and burnt somewhere else in the world, it will avoid, (not just diminish), but totally avoid  climate change!  


Well, what a great global relief that will be!

And Canada totally exonerated! And on your good advice, Mr. Goldberg, they may also invest their people's major pension fund money into some great infrastructure projects. Thanks.


Or is this just the pissiest piece of PR bafflegab you've ever heard?

But we are getting used to that now, after the election, in what is being called "the post-truth age."

But here's hope: John Milton, a great English spokesman for freedom of speech, said:

"Let Truth and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter. (Areopagitica 1664.)

And - a briefer version from my old grandmother's lexicon of proverbs: The truth will out.

Vive Truth!
It just that some days it takes a Joyce Nelson or, here, your faithful blogger to "out" it from corporate BS.
BS? You know what BS means.

Which reminds me: your faithful blogger was going to retire The Cogs Blog for a spell (Other calls), but the deconstruction of one more passage presented by Nelson is too good to leave you without.. So Blog 52 will be farewell for a spell till we all meet again. My, that sounds like a line from a musical I think I 'll write,

*Site C is a dam site for hydro-electric power development on the Yukon River in north-eastern British Columbia.

** You know the Trojan horse. It's huge, it sounds hollow inside. But you wheel it into your town like a great prize, anyway. Overnight the armed soldiers hidden inside sneak out and burn down your town. So sad.
Sometimes it doesn't look like a hollow horse, but like a gigantic infrastructure expenditure - built with borrowed money.