Drill Or Pack Up and Leave

Canada was founded on its bountiful and lucrative resources.

Watch as this government throws it all away:

The federal government has announced a change it expects will help Newfoundland and Labrador's oil and gas industry as it struggles to stay on its feet.

A new regulation means environmental assessments for exploratory drilling offshore will be done more quickly, by exempting offshore drilling in Newfoundland and Labrador from federal environmental impact assessments.

I'll just leave this right here:

The federal government has approved the proposal of a new offshore exploration drilling project set to begin in the Flemish Pass Basin — about 400 kilometres east of Newfoundland and Labrador. 

"The decision was made following a thorough and science-based environmental assessment process concluding that the project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects when mitigation measures are taken into account," the federal government said in a news release. 

Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson established 101 legally binding conditions that the proponent, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, must follow for the entirety of the project.

CNOOC bid $300 million for two offshore exploration licenses.

China could sure use Canada's co-operation in raping our resources.


Also:

These are, in my judgment, very rational and worthy sentiments, being expressed in a time of severe economic threat for the whole province. And unexceptionable in every sense. Students need employment. Newfoundland needs income. Certain faculties, engineering in particular, benefit greatly from partnership with the offshore.

But, as with the regularity of night following day, there was, nearly instantly, criticism from more than 340 staff and students at MUN that the president’s comments went against the university’s pledge to fight climate change. The critics viewed it as “very disappointing to see (a) kind of open-ended support” for the oil industry.

And, wildly in my view, they somehow perceived it that the president’s statements about the importance of the offshore oil industry and its link to Memorial’s own progress were an injury to “academic freedom.” As professor and faculty association executive Josh Lepawsky put it, “There’s a risk that this kind of open-ended support for the oil and gas industry voiced by the president may reduce or chill those who are critical of it, and that’s an imposition on academic freedom.”

Then don't accept any oil money. Rely on dwindling student numbers to keep MUN alive.