Living in an age of misplaced trust
By Letter to the Editor on January 21, 2020.
If you are like most concerned citizens you are probably puzzled about the real motives of the climate change crusade. To enlighten yourself, the Medicine Hat Public Library has a read for you – “Cloak of Green” by Elaine Dewar. It was published in 1995 so you can imagine how much the cause has been advanced up to today’s date. The following is from the book cover: “Along the way she meets some fascinating people – Anita Roddick of the Body Shop, businessman – politician Maurice Strong, and activists who run key Canadian and American environmental groups. She also examines some disturbing questions about these groups, about “green” corporations, and about government. Why are some environmental groups using misleading information in their fundraising efforts? Why do ordinary Canadians who contribute to environmental groups like Pollution Probe, Energy Probe, and World Wildlife Fund have little or no say in running these groups? Most concerned citizens trust environmental groups to fight on behalf of the public for solutions to the world’s environmental problems. That is what Elaine Dewar believed when she started work on this story. But she discovered that our trust can sometimes be misplaced, as you will see in this revealing and disturbing book.” I will add that David Suzuki and Elizabeth May also come under scrutiny. Of course, Maurice Strong, who was in the inner sanctum of Pierre Trudeau’s government, is pushing for one world government run by the unelected. It would seem we are well on our way. John MacLaren Medicine Hat 10-9
Perhaps Mr. MacLaren would care to address the controversy surrounding the knowledge that ExxonMobil lied, or that the CEC is a propaganda arm of the Alberta government’s support for the O&G industry at the tax payer’s expense. Perhaps Mr. MacLaren would like to address the question of why the CEC has been placed beyond access to information by the Alberta government.
Mr. MacLaren, it would also be advisable for you to fact check your sources, as Mr. Maurice Strong died in 2015.
Nevertheless, I am in agreement that wealthy corporations, the “unelected” as you call them, are, indeed, actively engaged in lobbying and, in effect, could be said to be forming a “one world government”. It is highly unlikely, however, that any environmental groups will be found to hold membership in this oligarchy.
To add to what GWM says my late father was a power planet engineer and was furious when Klein started talking about deregulation. Everything he said would happen has happened and Albertans have paid the price. Electrical engineers made it crystal clear that our so called cheap coal fired power electricity was costing us far more than it should be and the fees added to our bills were a disgrace. You may want to google the following which proves my point.
“The truth about “cheap coal in Alberta”
“TransAlta pays $149 m to settle U.S. power case”
TransAlta pays $56m for market manipulation “
The point is Albertans have paid for the fines that have been levied against this corporation.