Unlike the pipeline meeting in Fort Saskatchewan, where CAPL land agents attempted to discredit guest speaker, Dave Core; or the meeting in Lacombe where Industry Apologists, EUB staff, attempted to plant the idea that in Alberta the Orphan fund will cover costs of reclaiming the wreck that industry leaves in its wake. What a farce this government regulator has become. Neither showed up in Lethbridge.
I have seen this orphan fund used to move thousands of tons of contaminated soil 120 miles from one pile to another. This was from a location along side a public road that had a 400 Bbl tank with a hole in its bottom. Very convenient for disposal of hot loads of water, contaminated with hazardous chemicals, that might cost a few dollars to dispose of by the rules. The location of this site lent itself to be used by any and all resource operators that might just be driving by.
The orphan fund was used to move this contaminated soil.
The question is what repercussions are there or were there for the CEO’s, the owners, the boards of directors, the supervisors and employees, and the contract truck drivers, that for years used this site to dispose of their hazardous waste?
Well the CEO can retire with a $20 million dollar package to a life of philanthropy, the owners (shareholders) can plead ignorance, the board of directors can hide behind licensed land men, the local supervisors retired with a fat bonus because he made a pile of money for the company, if the employee operators open their mouth they will be black balled in the patch. And as for the contract truck driver, if he didn’t dump in the middle of the night he didn’t get hired and then how could he make payments on the truck.
Now you tell me, where is the regulator? Apologizing for industry or shuffling paper behind a desk. It must be getting time for a name change again.
Dave Core is facing the same problems with resource companies and their crony regulators in Ontario as we are facing in Alberta.
The essence of the problem is this: The Property Rights of landowners across Canada are being compromised by corrupted bureacrats and politicians and the Trudeau / Loughheed Constitution that left out property rights.
The only people I know of in Canada that are not subject to expropriation are Natives.
We passed the following resolution at Lethbridge:
That the adverse effect and loss of use headings, used on pipelines and transmission lines, be made payable on an annual basis, as they currently are on well sites.
Moved by Lawrence Barany
Seconded by Darwin Lund
Carried
I have seen this orphan fund used to move thousands of tons of contaminated soil 120 miles from one pile to another. This was from a location along side a public road that had a 400 Bbl tank with a hole in its bottom. Very convenient for disposal of hot loads of water, contaminated with hazardous chemicals, that might cost a few dollars to dispose of by the rules. The location of this site lent itself to be used by any and all resource operators that might just be driving by.
The orphan fund was used to move this contaminated soil.
The question is what repercussions are there or were there for the CEO’s, the owners, the boards of directors, the supervisors and employees, and the contract truck drivers, that for years used this site to dispose of their hazardous waste?
Well the CEO can retire with a $20 million dollar package to a life of philanthropy, the owners (shareholders) can plead ignorance, the board of directors can hide behind licensed land men, the local supervisors retired with a fat bonus because he made a pile of money for the company, if the employee operators open their mouth they will be black balled in the patch. And as for the contract truck driver, if he didn’t dump in the middle of the night he didn’t get hired and then how could he make payments on the truck.
Now you tell me, where is the regulator? Apologizing for industry or shuffling paper behind a desk. It must be getting time for a name change again.
Dave Core is facing the same problems with resource companies and their crony regulators in Ontario as we are facing in Alberta.
The essence of the problem is this: The Property Rights of landowners across Canada are being compromised by corrupted bureacrats and politicians and the Trudeau / Loughheed Constitution that left out property rights.
The only people I know of in Canada that are not subject to expropriation are Natives.
We passed the following resolution at Lethbridge:
That the adverse effect and loss of use headings, used on pipelines and transmission lines, be made payable on an annual basis, as they currently are on well sites.
Moved by Lawrence Barany
Seconded by Darwin Lund
Carried