A LETTER ABOUT THE CBC AND CLIMATE CHANGE

 I'd like to congratulate David Cochrane (CBC TV's "Power & Politics") for pointing out the negative consequences that building more pipelines will have on our ability to fight climate change. I may have missed something, but he is the very first journalist I've noticed who has directly reminded politicians (held them to account during a scrum or news conference setting) of that "inconvenient" connection. Of course, then AB's Premier went on to try to counter his point with misleading responses of her own. "Oil sands (not a direct quote) produce fewer emissions per barrel." Apparently that's true. But given that skyrocketing production is, and has been for some time, ECLIPSING those reductions, IT MATTERS NOT in the overall scheme of things, does it? The end result is MORE EMISSIONS. Smith also pointed out that the majority of fires were STARTED by people! This, too ignores the inconvenient fact that the reason they rapidly flare up into Hellfires, is because manmade climate change has spawned severe drought and "kindling-like" conditions in the forests. Put another way, if c.c. were removed from the equation (i.e. it never happened), the harm caused by arsonists, mindless smokers, quadders and campers) would surely be infinitesimal, compared to now. I still long for the day when misleading statement like Smith's would ALSO be challenged and corrected by the media....maybe one day.