South Africa's Mining Industry....Filth Created By Greed

[Anonymous]

The Catholic Arch Bishop of Edmonton flew to South Africa recently and then toured many of South Africa's disgusting mines. South Africa is the world's third largest exporter of coal which contributes more than any other fossil fuel to global warming. Fuck the half million South African workers that count on the mining sector for their bread and butter. Fuck the billions of rand the industry generates for the government. They are all greedy bastards!! ;)



FUCK DESMOND TUTU...he's a hypocritical, braindead asshole.

[Obvious Li]

The Catholic Arch Bishop of Edmonton flew to South Africa recently and then toured many of South Africa's disgusting mines. South Africa is the world's third largest exporter of coal which contributes more than any other fossil fuel to global warming. Fuck the half million South African workers that count on the mining sector for their bread and butter. Fuck the billions of rand the industry generates for the government. They are all greedy bastards!! ;)



FUCK DESMOND TUTU...he's a hypocritical, braindead asshole.

TUTU is a silly old style african politician with his hand out and his doctrine of hatred towards white europeans.....like most black leaders that claim to be religious they are in fact simply political whores that follow the highest bidder...he is a moron with little time left and hopefully will follow his old buddy mandela into worm food soon......

[Anonymous]

He also doesn't have a fucking clue what he's talking about. If he sees climate change as beig some major threat to our survival and it is caused by man then he should look at his own country. Canada is about 77% reliant on fossil fuels for energy while South Africa is about 87% reliant. Another hypocritical imbecile.

[Anonymous]

Tutu may have been a man of character and integrity, but this hypocrite has clearly sold-out to big money enemies of Canadian industry. Shame on Desmond Tutu.

Desmond Tutu, the 82-year-old millionaire celebrity, jetted from South Africa to Fort McMurray, Alta., to call the oilsands industry "filth."



"Do you want to live in a barren, treeless, flowerless desert? You have a choice," he said. He said this while sitting in the middle of Canada's boreal forest, one of the largest forests in the world.



The oilsands are filth, he said. We are destroying the world, he said. "Climate change is the moral struggle that will define this century," he said, blaming the oilsands for that. Saying that puts us on par with what Tutu would likely say was the moral crime he knew best -- apartheid itself. That is an extremist comparison, and one that profanes the victims of apartheid as much as it smears Canadians.



It's sad, really. In another time, Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize for his moral leadership, helping to end apartheid. But for a presumed six-figure speaking fee, paid for in part by a law firm specializing in suing resource companies, Tutu was willing to rent out his reputation, to demonize Canada on demand.



What did Canadians do to deserve this? We were amongst the world's leaders in the battle against apartheid. Is this how Tutu repays us – by comparing us to racists, calling us filth, and telling lies about our environmental record?



The oilsands are not filthy. Unlike Tutu's native South Africa, Canada's oilsands invest billions in ecological reclamation and emissions reductions. South Africa, by contrast, has amongst the world's worst pollution, especially smog and particulate pollution. Seventy-two percent of South African energy comes from coal – a much more carbon intensive source of energy, if you're worried about that sort of thing, which Tutu claims to be.



Canada is a world leader in the environment – our national greenhouse gas emissions have fallen in the past five years, unlike South Africa's, which have skyrocketed. And that's just harmless CO2. South Africa is one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to actual pollution – air and water quality. Let's not call it "filth" – we'll leave that sort of language to the bishop.



This isn't the first time Tutu has come to town to trash-talk us. And the mainstream media laps it up uncritically, treating Tutu as if he were an expert in the environment, or oil and gas, or even Indian treaties.



But Tutu's visit brings troubling questions – too troubling for his fanboys in the press, who were probably too busy asking him to sign his autograph than to ask him any tough questions. He was a sequel to the last know-nothing foreign celebrity millionaire to jet in to trash-talk us, namely Neil Young. Young compared us to Hiroshima, not apartheid. He got media tongue-baths too.



Both celebrities were hosted by Chief Allan Adam of the Fort Chipewyan First Nation. He's another millionaire, whose band-owned company, called Acden, earns about $250 million a year from oilsands contracts.



And of course the final celebrity millionaire behind this visit was none other than Bob Rae, the former NDP premier of Ontario and interim leader of the federal Liberals. He has signed up with a ritzy Toronto law firm specializing in suing resource companies on behalf of Indian activists.



By demonizing the oilsands, Bob Rae's company increases pressure on them to make even larger pay-outs to his clients -- more than the $250 million a year Chief Adams' band already makes. It's not real politics. It's U.S.-style pre-litigation campaigning, to soften up oilsands companies, to pressure them to settle -- with a healthy commission cheque to Rae and company.



And what was the role of the Tides Foundation, the San Francisco anti-oil extremists who have poured tens of thousands of dollars directly into Adam's companies?



Alas, reporters were too busy posing for selfies to ask such impertinent questions.

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[Gary Oak]

is Tutu really a man of character ? Is a man so racist against whites so outstanding an individual ? Sure he is united with natives in their hatred of white people but if it wasn't for the British taking over North America then other people would have. They French wouldn't give them money ,reservations free medical,free schooling free taxes they would say "get a job you bums" as would the Spanish, East Indians, Chinese would really hammer them as they did the Polynesian natives of Taiwan, the modern Japanese would probably give them the pity party they love so much. Is Tutu actually knowledgable about the topic of oil production ? Is he concerned about  other countries oil production which is  considerably worse ? I believe he just scammed and enjoyed a nice free trip to Canada courtesy of our tax funded natives.

[Anonymous]

is Tutu really a man of character ? Is a man so racist against whites so outstanding an individual ? Sure he is united with natives in their hatred of white people but if it wasn't for the British taking over North America then other people would have. They French wouldn't give them money ,reservations free medical,free schooling free taxes they would say "get a job you bums" as would the Spanish, East Indians, Chinese would really hammer them as they did the Polynesian natives of Taiwan, the modern Japanese would probably give them the pity party they love so much. Is Tutu actually knowledgable about the topic of oil production ? Is he concerned about  other countries oil production which is  considerably worse ? I believe he just scammed and enjoyed a nice free trip to Canada courtesy of our tax funded natives.

The issue at hand is not a racial one or even one of colonialism Oak. Here we have an iconic figure from the anti-apartheid struggle who knows nothing about Canadian industry coming to Canada to criticize our industry as being filthy and greedy. Notice nobody was allowed to ask him any real questions? Meanwhile his own country is a sewage dump compared to Canada's strict environmental standards.



Tutu is just another unethical, hypocritical celebutard for hire by the big money anti-oilsands industry. As sad as that is, that is the real issue here.