Tom Fletcher writes for Black Publishing, and he recently wrote an article dissing the Federal Review Panel as simply keeping people in Ottawa in business:
...they rearrange the same scientific data into nice big binders in French and English, taking an Ottawa amount of time to do so... B.C. VIEWS: Ottawa make-work costs real jobsAccording to Mr. Fletcher, "obstructionist aboriginals" and "professional environmentalists" simply don't want any more mines, pipelines or power projects. Funny, since the TNG is at work on a bioenergy project for the Chilcotin. As Fletcher says,
They apparently want B.C.’s vast hinterland to depend entirely on taxpayer-funded welfare, supplemented with politically correct public works like hiking trails, all paid for with money borrowed against those of us still lucky enough to work in the private sector, our children and grandchildren.I despise this sort of special interest rhetoric, it's simply sycophantic, brown-nosing partisanship, it's Tom Fletcher employed by Black Publishing to dispense nonsense to the masses.
And it works: if you read the comments after his articles, his writings lead to frequent discussions demeaning aboriginal people and their beliefs and values. Commentors are quick to criticize anyone in opposition to the mine as being anti-free enterprise and pro-welfare bum. Racism lies close to the surface in these discussions, and commentors use stereotypes to paint First Nations people as hypocritical and adverse to modernization.
Hi Bill. I've been reading about this nonsense at the straight goods and How bad is the record. I cannot believe the speed with which they are hitting the mostly unsuspecting public. Ramming things through while trying to distract us with the circus in Vancouver.
ReplyDeleteOn Vancouver Island they are stripmining the forests, stockpiling the (peckerpole) logs in advance of getting permission to ship it all to china. Then, they have leave to sell off the land to the highest bidder. This includes the best surfing beach on the island at Jordan River.
No consultation, no notification, it's criminal. We have to stop this government, they are raping us and robbing us.
I would like to see people in BC come together behind this first nations band. We need a media who will report and ask hard questions. Since we don't, it's up to bloggers to educate and spread the word. I'll do what I can.