Daily Poll: Should oil and gas companies pay climate change costs?

9 Comments

  • Hellain Haas - 5 years ago

    As tobacco producers were held liable and we're proven to knowingly contribute to I'll health and death of those they sold their products to, why would those standards not also apply to the petroleum industry?

    While this industry reaps staggering profits and receives enormous tax breaks and political favor from what I firmly believe are bought off governmental parties, we the people pay for their damages.

    Look up what these "job creators" are behind all the pretty words, and their advantages while we the people bear the brunt of financial greed

    There is only one earth, and we are all a part of it. Nothing and no one nor their children will be immune from the effects of environmental and social harm.

  • Brian - 5 years ago

    Corey ... rubbish ! Do some research, Chinese state owned companies OWN and control tar sands oil production. That’s why the CHINESE want the trans mountain pipeline built !

  • Corey - 5 years ago

    Brian, the ownership of each individual barrel of oil mined or currently in construction at an oil sands mine is; 64.2% for Canada, 20.1% stake for the U.S., 8.4% for the Netherlands, 3.6% for China, 2.6% for France and 1.1% for Japan.

  • Brian - 5 years ago

    I will vote yes and also no to Trans Mountain when people in cities like ours stop driving gasoline powered cars and SUVs.

  • Brian - 5 years ago

    I will vote yes and also no to Trans Mountain when people in cities like ours stop driving gasoline powered cars and SUVs.

  • Blain - 5 years ago

    Heating of the atmosphere is directly proportional to total population on earth. Oil comalniea have nothing to do with population. Go after the users of fossil fuels, not the producers!!!! That means everyone!!!!

  • Pat - 5 years ago

    Marianne. The oil companies have also done a good job making sure we are hooked and dependent on their product. Of course they should share in the cost and take more responsibility. It's a no brainer.

  • Brian - 5 years ago

    Sorry Marianne , WRONG ! More than 50 % of the dirty crap bitumen oil from the Alberta tar sands is is controlled by Chinese foreign owned communist controlled companies in CHINA and the crap oil is destined for Asian owned companies so they can produce more plastic packaging crap and crapy plastic consumer goods for Walmart ! FACT !

  • Marianne Munro - 5 years ago

    It's all about supply and demand. If people didn't demand so much of the supply (for heating our houses, fueling our cars, Suvs, trucks, motorcycles, airplanes, boats, snow blowers, lawn mowers . . . and the list goes on) then the oil and gas companies wouldnt have to keep ramping up production. Its always easy to blame the "big bad company" but we need to look at ourselves as well.

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