Pipeline feud between Alberta and B.C. not about oil, it’s about destroying rights

By Letter to the Editor on February 16, 2018.

The Alberta-B.C. pipeline feud isn’t about oil, it’s about destroying your rights. Oh, and getting votes.

Remember the Exxon Valdez because with increased tanker traffic in constricted waterways, it’s when, not if. Millions of people rely on the waterways for drinking water, the beaches, ecosystems, and infrastructure, and there’ll be devastation for years to come when it happens.

Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau are willing to destroy a province because of pandering and votes. But when it happens will they be held criminally responsible because of their psychotic actions? Not a hope.

What truly needs to be understood is that people concerned about the destruction are being told to shut up and do as they’re told. So even though we elect these politicians, our employees, to run a country for us apparently we have no rights after that.

So who’s next?

Welcome to democracy.

Keith Guthmiller

Medicine Hat

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