haylon6 (November 18, 2008 at 9:20 am)

Contacting Shell will do little, you will be dished off to their public relations office and it will end there. Instead we should try bring the CEOs and Project Managers of these juggernauts up on murder charges for the deaths theyve had a hand in. This is the only way to stop these companies. They may not care about you or the envirmnent but hold these guys responcible and they ll move to save their own skins everytime, and maybe think twice about unrestricted exploitation of our world.

woofybigj (October 13, 2008 at 11:30 pm)

Shell has operated in your beloved Canada for over 50 years. You want before and after pictures? I can do that, I have built many CBM sites on sensitive native prairie, the permantaly disturbed area is about 3m2 on the rest the soils and vegetation is still intact. Even in forested land I can show you reclamation projects where you would never know any thing was done, the trees are smaller yes, but give them 20 years and people like you will be clamoring for it to be a protected natural area

takuarm (October 6, 2008 at 5:49 pm)

Do you eat, do you drink water, do you breath the air? Did you even consider the fact that what they are doing is irreversable? Do you live in this area? No, so what do you care about? Another case of beer? Can't make beer without drinking water? Or did you know that?

dntgiveupnow (October 5, 2008 at 1:55 pm)

ALL of you need to take some BEFORE/AFTER pictures of the basin and then take a trip to Nigeria to see what Shell is doing for the people there. I visited Port Harcourt and felt the pollution, saw the pollution and smelled the oil in the air. Shell went back on and continue to defy their promise to protect the environment in Nigeria. Do we want this for our beloved Canada? Do we want to let Shell spoil our land and then jet home with $ in their pockets? Our gov't had better be prepared!

woofybigj (October 4, 2008 at 3:42 am)

Great, I got thumbed down because someone doesn't know what "nepotism" means. Let me dumb it down for you: It means the Chiefs and their families steal and misappropriate the money meant for their tribes welfare. They take several trips per year at Indian and Northern Affairs expense to attend conventions and fact finding tours only to golf their time away and stay in the finest hotels. I know several who do it all the time, its a way of life, maybe even a new "traditional" way of life.

clayoilpatchman (October 1, 2008 at 8:41 pm)

I think you missed my point. The natives were put into these schools and what not upwards of 100+ years ago, today there is nothing stopping them from making traditional clothing and hunting and fishing with traditional means, which they do not do.

superjudge77 (October 1, 2008 at 3:52 pm)

Obviously you don't know Canadian history. Natives were shipped off to residential schools so they could be assimilated within "Canadian" culture. The Canadian government tried to kill their culture; genocide. They were quite happy wearing "traditional clothing" until the government forced them into suits and "store bought clothes". Now that they fight to be able to return to more traditional ways of life, which you seem to advocate,you also support the destruction of their means to do this

clayoilpatchman (September 30, 2008 at 2:38 pm)

Around 2:50 on the video I notice that old native woman wearing store bought clothes, if the natives are so into their roots and tradition why is she not wearing hides, mocassins and traditional clothing. Or do they even know how to make them anymore? Natives seem to want all the benifits of the new world clothes, cars, modern firearms and fishing nets, houses built with our tax dollars yet they claim to want thing the way they were. It would seem NOT!

woofybigj (September 30, 2008 at 2:52 am)

Whose land is sacred? I am going to start a group or "tribe" if you will to protest the habiation of the greater metropolitan area of Vancouver. Some of my ancestors came from that place, the current residents have sullied and despoiled the land. I want them all out, they are not protecting it in a way I decided is best. You have absolutely no reason to argue with me because I am right and you are wrong. The true value is intrinsic and inherent to the area itself, as such it is priceless.

woofybigj (September 30, 2008 at 2:34 am)

So what you are arguing is that all supporters of resource extraction and industrial development drive "jacked up" F350's, are white, are male and if I read into your pithy points correctly...must be Redneck's? Wow I didn't know that environmentalists (of which you certainly are, I just have to assume that) were so biased by their own stereotypical views of people they don't agree with.

woofybigj (September 30, 2008 at 2:26 am)

When are truths racist? Why are basic facts that are common to so many reserves so un-politically correct when they are pointed out? And why is the commenter labelled a racist? I have worked on them, around them and some of my family came from them. Reserves are what they are and until the defacto dictatorships called chief and council are outlawed the nepotism won't stop and the poverty will not end.

clayoilpatchman (September 26, 2008 at 2:34 pm)

Lets break that down loggers- they have little or no understanding of the enviornment just look at their cutblocks and the mess left behind. Guides for hunting and fishing are only interested in their own profit and could care less about the animals, fish, or the residents that have the rights to harvest these animals or fish, or the enviornment, from my experiences.