Trouble In Toronto

Does your home/building/business use natural gas?  The gas you are burning in Toronto has been supplied across Canada through TransCanada Corp (TRP) pipelines for sixty years.    So now TransCanada (TRP) wants to stop supplying Canadian gas through its public utilities entrusted pipeline paid for by timid taxpayers in Toronto and the rest of Canada.  Why?  Because the east doesn’t use enough gas today.  So says TRP after Toronto has grown from village to mega-city.

But not to worry.  Because you don’t use enough gas, TRP plans to build a brand new pipeline to supply Toronto with gas from the U.S.  Yup - a new pipeline because you don’t use enough gas.  And the new U.S. gas will come from high cost Marcellus shales that will shut down production every time the price of oil collapses.  The oil price is tanking as I write.

U.S. President Obama is known world-wide for his successful efforts to block the U.S. TRP Keystone pipeline construction proposal.  Do you think he will approve a TRP pipeline to serve Toronto?

Sorry Toronto.  You paid for the TRP pipeline across Canada and now you will freeze in the dark like the rest of us in forty frigid towns and cities along the venerable TRP pipeline route.  Why would thirty greedy TRP Board members put the boots to the nation that built this pipeline miracle?  They need our pipeline to move bitumen (heavy oil) from the Alberta tar sands.  TRP will make a fortune shipping bitumen.  We freeze and TRP triumphs.  The truth?  It’s all about the money.

Today, faith and integrity have long since died in North America, and those of us who remember, find ourselves thrown out into a world that has always been tribal.  Tribalism builds nothing.  Tribalism exploits the vulnerable.  When freedom has run its course, the masses actually VOTE for tribal leadership.  It’s a death wish that has overtaken the United States and now shows up in plush Canadian Board Rooms.

In the ruins of our once “Blessed Land”, money trumps integrity and personal greed guides decision making.  Trouble in Toronto.  Tragedy in Canada.  Tribulation on our tiny planet.