Questions on People's Minds Regarding an Economy and Sector They Do Not ControlWhat should working people think of the opposition to or support for pipelines in Canada? Does the opposition or support come from a principled position of opposing imperialism and its anti-social aim of maximum profit and refusal to recognize the rights of Indigenous peoples and refusal to deal with human-influenced climate change, pollution and other environmental problems? Or is the opposition or support manipulated on behalf of powerful private interests of this or that imperialist cartel both colluding and contending within the energy sector?
The people do not control the energy economy or any sector for that matter. This collusion and contention over pipelines is essentially inter-imperialist and inter-cartel contention over control of the energy sector. Part of this contention is to displace traditional oil and gas (and coal) with renewable energy; part is for control of the sector; and part is for broader geopolitical and military reasons to weaken the influence of contending imperialists in various regions and globally. The situation reveals that the imperialists must not be permitted to manipulate the situation to the advantage of this or that faction of the financial oligarchy and lead the people astray, especially the working class. The organized working class must identify and defeat any and all attempts to disinform the working people. Disinformation is a means to keep the people unorganized and unable to discuss and uphold a principled position that favours their interests. This is a problem that must be taken up for solution. This struggle forms part of the broader struggle to gain control over the energy sector. To restate the thesis: The overriding issue for Canadians concerning the energy sector is "Who Controls and Who Decides?" To assert rational scientific planning and social responsibility over the production and distribution of carbon and other energy resources, the people must wrest control of the sector away from the global cartels.
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Why is one pipeline
approved and another cancelled? What is the
difference? Can a principled difference be found
and elaborated? For example, the federal
government cancelled the Northern Gateway oil
pipeline from Alberta to the northern coast of BC
yet is frantically trying to build the Trans
Mountain pipeline to Vancouver despite broad
opposition. What is the great difference? Why one
and not the other? They both are scheduled to
carry the same product. Why not cancel both? Why
not approve both? Why cancel an oil pipeline to
the northern BC coast and then force through the
building of a natural gas pipeline by LNG Canada
on much the same route to the same northern port
city of Kitimat?