THE DAMAGE IS DONE AND THE OTTAWA CITIZEN CLUES IN AT LAST

Timeline:
2003: Lanark Landowners Association is founded to defend embattled rural businesses in Eastern Ontario
2004: Rural Ontario Landowners demonstrate on Parliament Hill to decry debilitating bureaucracies
2005: Rural Ontario Landowners demonstrate at Queens Park to protest big government policies that kill rural economic viability
2009: The Green Energy Act (and its FIT program) is introduced to the Ontario Legislature, and is quickly rammed through by a majority Liberal government
2014: Kelly Egan writes a story about the collapse of rural Ontario businesses, curling rinks and churches.
Hmmm. That Ottawa Citizen...if you cup your ear, you can hear the baying of the news hounds on the scent!




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PROPERTY RIGHTS ADVOCATES HELP POISONED FAMILIES; REGULATORS DITHER

Email forward via

Colleen Boddez

President

Alberta Landowners Council

http://www.albertalandownerscouncil.com/

Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 8:18 PM

Subject: Families forced from homes by Baytex Energy . . . Let's help them get home for Christmas

 

Colleen,

 

I am helping some farm families near Peace River who have been forced from their homes by an unusual form of oil sands production.  Baytex Energy is operating dozens of oil sands wells that are connected to 86 super-heated bitumen tanks around these people’s homes and farms.  In fact, all of these heated tanks and wells are within a 1 by 5 mile area. 

 

But Baytex is open-venting the heated tanks to maximize production.  The aerosol plume and tar-solvent like smell I encountered when I was up there on October 28^th was unlike anything I have every experienced before.  It was overwhelming.

 

These people and their kids started to get sick and had to abandon their homes.  The government is even concerned and has called a public inquiry but that does not get these people back into their homes or relocated. 

 

We need people power to help get this fixed. 

 

It turns out that the banks like CIBC, BMO, RBC and others are the major shareholders in Baytex.  The hope is that if enough people email the banks and other institutional shareholders about what Baytex is doing that Baytex will get the message and stop harming these people.

 

Below is an email from the families explaining their nightmare and how easily people can help.  The are not looking for donations, just people to email the banks and shareholders. 

 

All they have to do is go to their Stop Baytex website, and click on the yellow banner at the top.  A fresh email will open for people to send their concerns directly to the shareholders.  Here is the link to their website:  http://www.stopbaytex.ca/

 

The Labrecques are hardworking, honest farm families.  They really need our help.  It’s just wrong what’s happening to them.  Please send this to others. 

 

Also, here is a link to YouTube video a videographer from Britain made this summer that shows firsthand the nightmare these families are living:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqfFeKWm9lc

 

Thanks for your help with this. 

 

Regards,

Keith Wilson

One Number (780) 991-5050
Fax (780) 401-3178
kwilson@wilsonlawoffices.ca
Wilson Law Office
Suite 195, 3 -11 Bellerose Drive
St. Albert, Alberta, Canada   T8N 5C9

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