Alberta environment minister suspends environment

Minister of Environment, Jason Nixon (Mar 31 order), waives environmental reporting amid covid-19 pandemic. He says complying would be a "hardship" for companies, even though billions and billions of dollars and perks have flowed to O&G of late.

Full article: National Observer

This is the minister who promised no public or Crown land would be sold. This is the minister who helped ram a 2020-21 budget **with a $58/barrel oil price and no sudden-onset global pandemic** which a) unrevised is bad budgeting and b) propels nursing job and health care cuts. 

This is the person who in 2011 signed a one-year (threatening? let's kill the bitch? poaching? trespassing?) peace bond.

 

Ministerial rating: 0/5

best of 2018: USA forbidden words

The Trump admin's 7 deadly sins banned words at the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) are:
vulnerable
diversity
entitlement
transgender
fetus
evidence-based

science-based

HONOURABLE MENTION: A Republican dead pimp is elected in Nevada! Roger Stone called Dennis Hof the Trump of Pahrump. Trump's grandfather made a family nest egg peddling booze, food and women in Bennett BC. Very inspirational!

Dennis Hof in 2013

In other news, a Snopes report on the dentist (that shot Cecil a rare black-maned lion in 2015) and  Trump's newly-formed wildlife conservation council. In 2017, Cecil's son Xanda also was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe.

best of 2017

NAUGHTY AND NICE

Naughty

In January, Sheila Gunn Reid's camera (?) was 'punched in the face'. She did not, as far as I  know, issue a clarification, unless that happened in court. 'You just hit me in the face.'

June: It did not happen in court. TskTsk, bearing false witness. Five million protesters worldwide at a Saturday Jan. 21 Women's March and there's was one incident and it happened to be an Alberta provocateur, her 'bodyguard,' a shady fake news outlet, one luthier, then a network of neoWeimar retweeters. Bounty hunting and death threats ensued.

The link on that tweet http://bit.ly/2jjtgTr goes here: http://podblanc.guru/index.html. The account itself @STOPSYTGENOCIDE was gone shortly thereafter (neo-Nazi Paul Craig Cobb? Location, North Dakota). The account was harassing one @stonekettle.

It would appear that de-escalation efforts are what happened, when organizers ushered Mr Bews away and no face was punched. The spouse of Canada's former PM, Laureen Harper, didn't see it that way and lobbed a big cocktail into SGR's molotov mob fire.

Neo-nazi Richard Spencer however did get punched in the face the day before the Women's March. Journalist Ben Jacobs also got punched in the face by a Republican candidate while reporting on the Montana congressional election in May.

Nice

Gallery Furniture stores became shelters for Texas flood evacuees and Guardsmen in August.

Texas National Guard troops rest between
shifts of rescuing people in flood

shooting an elephant

Zimbabwe 2012.

Donald Trump Jr. posing with an elephant tail.

a licence to plate

Provincial neo-liberals, conservatives The Conservative Family can 'brand' (vb.) new provincial parties with names that just use public symbols, emblems or anthem bites like StrongFree word... thingies. It's ubiquitous, cost-effective advertising.

1. 

   Socred Len Skowronski says

   Beautiful BC Party 
2. Wildrose Party
3. Living Skies Party
4. Friendly Party
5. Yours To Discover Party
6. Je me souviens Party
7. Ocean Playground Party
8. Birthplace of Confederation Party
9. Be in this place Party
10. Cabot Party
11. Klondike Party
12. Spectacular Party
13. Polar Bear Party

A province's name is also operative, e.g., Saskatchewan Party.

MP Leona Aglukkaq's Christmas message
NEW NUNAVUT PLATE

Amber. alerts. & funny. hunting. jokes.

Amber TUCCARO - Media Release August 28, 2012 Amber

Mikisew Cree First Nation
cbc.ca

TUCCARO was reported missing by her mother after she failed to return to a hotel in Nisku where she had been staying with her infant son and a girl friend. TUCCARO was residing in Fort McMurray at the time of her disappearance and has not had contact with her family since August 18th, 2010. TUCCARO is approximately 5'6 (167cm), 144 lbs (65 kg) with black hair, brown eyes. Police believe she was last seen in the Nisku area. Update: police seeking info news video, unknown voice 

Royal Canadian Legion BC Newsletter Publishes Offensive "Indian" Joke," August 16, 2012. 'The joke begins with the two hunters in northern Saskatchewan when “an Indian runs across the field.” The Saskatchewan hunter aims and shoots the aboriginal dead. The Alberta hunter expresses shock, but the Saskatchewan hunter tells him it’s legal in Saskatchewan. Later, the Alberta hunter buys beer and puts it on the roof of his truck when “an Indian runs by, grabs the beer and runs away.” The Alberta hunter then pulls out a pistol and shoots the person dead. He’s later arrested by an RCMP officer who tells him that it’s illegal to use “bait” when shooting “Indians” in Saskatchewan.' full article

dead bears & counting

1) Bears can count. 2) In May, an NHL hockey player, Vancouver Canucks forward David Booth ((left wing - Detroit, Michigan)) "unleashed the fury" and paid big bucks to hunt bear using a baiting technique, i.e. sit quietly in a tree platform and wait for a bear and other bears may come and go for the bait, but only a certain big, male bear is shot.

on bears counting: one fish, two fish,
red fish, blue fish

Then again, last year more bears were killed in Alberta by wildlife officials--145 bears killed in oilsands--because they're habituated to humans. So, would this baiting habituate bears to humans.

Anyways, between that or whatever--like oil camp garbage--searching, searching. oh wait: 仍然搜索 eblogger ... Twin River Outfitting (Your Host:  Blair Inscho) has a kill rate of over 100 % (?). Blair recommends that "you pass on anything under 6 ft,, as there will be better!"

A delicious-4bears-bait is a mixture of old oatmeal, molasses and beaver guts.

And: Vast amounts of this area have never been baited!! yadayada.. clover, dandelion.. yada... Our hunts take place in a number of areas including ; logged off areas, pipelines, wallows, salt licks, cut lines, natural meadows, fields and other intriguing sites.

And they also do wolves. See article: Wildtv.ca on Shaw. Bear baiting is illegal in British Columbia, Canada and 18 states in the USA.

3) There aren't a lot of ways for a grizzly bear to die. Bear 71. A 2012 interactive National Film Board of Canada (NFB) web documentary won a Cyber Lion Award at the 59th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which took place June 17-23 in Cannes. The wikipedia article lists more installations.

4)  Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Deveopment (AESRD): southwest 2011 DNA samples and grizzly bear reports.

speculation: rat3pack to$ monetize$ wolfhunt

Gary, and whats-his-name (covert, deleted emails or he's not here), and former energy minister Rick got it in with the hunting crowd and lodges and high end US trophy game hunters. And we all know the thousand plus wolves gotta go, for the woodland caribou recovery, says federal environment person, or no says another.

"Canada’s Minister of Environment Peter Kent supports a plan that would shoot or poison wolves that have been preying on caribou." Or was that paradis industry, can never remember, which is switch.

What's that worth, a heli hunt per wolf? Co-inkadinkly, and must be nice bizniz as usual fer flyboyz, "What is it, and why does vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin support the practice?"

http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/category/wolves-under-fire/

Haha! Reminds me of the funny Armstrong ranch story, 2006, and the hunt: Dick Cheney shoots Harry Whittington, mistakes a campaign contributor for a quail.