Promises produce nothing

By Letter to the Editor on July 3, 2021.

Editor:
Answering the apologist for the oil and gas professional lobb, I suspect Mr. Brett Wilson spends more time in the marble halls of government sucking up subsidy dollars than he ever spent mucking around the mud in a drilling field. He certainly doesn\’t talk like any rig man I ever met.
He says he helped finance Canadian energy businesses most of his career (haven’t we all?). He boasts of its “global leadership.”
I am not so willing to accept that outlandish claim unless you want to praise the Explorers and Producers Association of Canada (EPAC) connections to government subsidy with worker’s taxed wages. He displays too easy confidence with the lawyer’s lingo, all the court findings and conclusions on standards of impartiality, in favour of the energy industry.
The average Albertan would like to know why we have to front $30 million to defend the richest set of international corporate shareholders from the public disclosure of their misdemeanors.
Why the fancy grade “A” quality staff in this elegant government set-up has worked behind closed doors for years and produced diddly squat.
Why the government that promised in the last election “jobs, jobs, and more jobs\” from an energy industry of “global leadership” that has laid off hundreds of thousands while getting truckloads of cash – cash to not cleanup abandoned well sites that they refuse to pay their taxes on.
Train loads of money have financed corporate lawyers, corporate think tanks, and creative writers speculating on how the oil and gas business will someday clean up its environmental degradations.
Yet the world has yet to see any significant accomplishment; only more and more devastation snowed over by blizzards of verbiage.
No, this latest pile of promises produces nothing from the government, or its pet industry excusers.
Don Ryane
Lethbridge