Tony Abbott and Stephen Harper: The stupidest men on Earth

I will say this in the simplest of street language that even a conservative can understand... Tony Abbott and Stephen Harper are the dumbest mother F#2KING idiots the world has ever seen.

To say that environmental regulations costs jobs only shows that these two do no have a grasp on reality.

First of all Stephen Harper has been firing thousands of workers involved in the environmental protection of Canada's air and waterways so that corporations could express process their mining and oil excavations but job requirements haven't increased in any other process in Canada.

Environmental regulations have NEVER cost industry jobs but rather created a whole new group of manufacturers and service/support companies.

Back in the sixties when the Federal and Provincial governments decided to regulate particulate emissions from manufacturing processes it spawned a whole new industry. Dust collector and baghouse manufacturers sprung up around the civilized world. Installation and maintenance companies were created and in some instances manufacturing processes were improved.

All of these new industries created jobs that still flourish to this day.

Stephen Harper and Australia's Tony Abbott won't let climate policies kill jobs

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/stephen-harper-and-australias-tony-abbott-wont-let-climate-policies-kill-jobs

THERE IS A COST TO INACTIVITY

 

We are already starting to pay the price of inactivity by industry and governments alike. Cleanup in the Giant mine fiasco is costing taxpayers an initial 1 billion dollars to encapsulate and neutralize arsenic residue from the gold processing at the mine but arsenic never deteriorates or loses its ability to kill so taxpayers are on the hook, for eternity, to monitor and ensure that the lakes and rivers are not destroyed and that humans and animals alike are not endangered.

 

Harper tells Canadians that the various mining and oil companies are liable for up to 2 billion dollars for environmental clean up but that is a drop in the bucket when one looks at what the costs were for the Gulf cleanup and its residual effects on fish and fowl.

 

To avoid liabilities as in the Giant mine situation corporations simply register a company as a stand alone processor and then bankrupt it to avoid liability. A recent example of filing for bankruptcy to avoid liability would be MM&A Rail and the explosion in Lac Megantic.