CHARBONNEAU – Empty pipelines make good monuments and spill no oil
THE KINDER MORGAN pipeline should be built for the same reason as the pyramids – as a national monument.
The pyramids employed workers but served no practical purpose other than a grand burial site for the pharaohs. The humble graves of the workers would have served the pharaohs just as well.
Construction of the People’s pipeline will employ well-paid union workers. It’s supposed to carry crude oil to Asia but that market doesn’t exist. Therefore, it will serve as a wonderful monument to the “National Interest.”
The pipeline should be built because it serves political interests. Premier Notley’s hopes to be re-elected depend on completion of the pipeline.
David Charbonneau is a retired TRU electronics instructor who hosts a blog at http://www.eyeviewkamloops.wordpress.com.
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Should Trudeau’s pipeline ever be completed as suggested, as a monument to financial stupidity it should remind us that there was a pharaoh called Akhenaten who also pushed an ill-considered decision and ended up having his memory obliterated from all monuments. And they were graven in stone, not just a hollow and empty pipe
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