Albertan adults who know better are forced to enter an existential fight beyond defending oil, which will define the future direction of the West's survival at all, within confederation.
The existential Fight For The Future Of The West Itself
By Action Alberta --Susan Hearn ——Bio and Archives--May 12, 2020
I may sound pessimistic, but I believe that Alberta has now moved beyond trying to convince the rest of the country of the importance of the oil industry. I believe we are in a fight for the future of Alberta proper and all her industries, not just resource development. Ironically, we also must fight for the future of the indigenous peoples of the West. Without our insistence of their right to resource development on their reserve lands, they have no future either.
With all due respect for his hard work, my reply to Mr. Tonken of CAPP is simply this: today's defence of the oil industry by oil men themselves, may simply be “too little too late.” The truth is most oil executives beginning as far back as the late 1970s, and early 1980s did not take the environmental movement seriously. They took it for granted that the public knew oil was important, so they did not attempt to publicly defend their industry.
They could not have guessed that in a few decades, twenty-year-old students, wearing hoodies, balaclavas and waving ugly anti-oil placards would hold their industry hostage.
Progressive-left environmental ideology has now risen to the level of a religious belief among many Canadians
Industry leaders are now very late to the game of trying to educate the Canadian public on the importance of oil and oil derivatives like plastics and fertilizers, and the thousands of other everyday products that we use daily to make our lives better. CAPP and others like them are now forced to valiantly play defence, rather than going on offence when the environmental objections first arose almost 40 years ago.
While the oil industry ignored the rising tide of opposition, the environmental movement gained a lot of ground by accessing the public school system and the universities. They reached generations of children with only their side of the story. Some of the people in Ottawa today are simply products of the early generations, that were so indoctrinated by David Suzuki, Al Gore, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the Tides Foundation and others. Their progressive-left environmental ideology has now risen to the level of a religious belief among many Canadians. As a result, they can no longer respond to reason or truth beyond their own conception of the world. Many adults and young people today seriously believe they must get rid of oil to “save the world”. So no matter how many good people they throw out of work to do it, they believe it must be done for the good of the planet and their own future, they believe. Reason and economics have no place here. It is all emotional fear mongering. How can you argue against such altruistic global hysteria?
I have no doubt that CAPP and others are now working hard to try and re-educate the public on the importance of the oil industry. And I thank them for their many efforts. Unfortunately, it amounts to “playing defence, too late in the last quarter.” Public perception of oil has been negatively shaped by shallow politicians, academics and media sources for decades now. The “defend our industry” ship should have sailed long ago, but unfortunately for thousands of younger Canadians, knowledge of the importance of Canada’s oil industry has sunk forever under a deluge of pseudo-science, misinformation and lies.
So now Albertan adults who know better are forced to enter an existential fight beyond defending oil, which will define the future direction of the West's survival at all, within confederation.
As Albertans, we say: “Enough is Enough”. That’s why we’ve launched this website “Action Alberta” and a newsletter to inform, educate, and motivate Canadians to stand up, speak out and take action to address the inequality and s rel=“ubstandard treatment of Alberta and its citizens by our Federal Government. Our goal is to change how we are treated by our Federal Government.
I may sound pessimistic, but I believe that Alberta has now moved beyond trying to convince the rest of the country of the importance of the oil industry. I believe we are in a fight for the future of Alberta proper and all her industries, not just resource development. Ironically, we also must fight for the future of the indigenous peoples of the West. Without our insistence of their right to resource development on their reserve lands, they have no future either.
With all due respect for his hard work, my reply to Mr. Tonken of CAPP is simply this: today's defence of the oil industry by oil men themselves, may simply be “too little too late.” The truth is most oil executives beginning as far back as the late 1970s, and early 1980s did not take the environmental movement seriously. They took it for granted that the public knew oil was important, so they did not attempt to publicly defend their industry.
They could not have guessed that in a few decades, twenty-year-old students, wearing hoodies, balaclavas and waving ugly anti-oil placards would hold their industry hostage. 
