Canadian Oil Hack: "Our Hydrocarbons Respect Women & Children & The Environment. It's Ethical Oil"
If you’re wondering who thinks oil can be ethical, consider this tweet from Canada’s version of a rich, racist, rightwing former oil executive and extremely-online troll who loves spreading lies and seriously wants to hang environmental protestors named W. Brett Wilson: “The global energy industry is clearly growing. But the @NDP and @liberal_party coalition want to kill Canada’s energy industry. Hypocrisy and stupidity abound. Our hydrocarbons respect women and children and the environment. It’s ethical oil. Must participate….”
Yes, you read that correctly, apparently Canada shouldn’t try and do its part to reduce fossil fuel use, because its “hydrocarbons respect women and children and the environment” unlike, apparently, oil produced elsewhere in less-ethical places where there’s conflict or oppressive governments with poor human rights records.
This is, of course, very stupid, and it only took one person in the replies to let him know about how oil workers are engaging in sex trafficking, disappearing and killing Indigenous women, disrupting communities, and mockingly sexualizing an underage Greta Thunberg. So while you could pretend the hydrocarbons themselves are totally respectful to women and children, clearly the industry workers are… not. And of course no hydrocarbons “respect” the environment, there is no environmentally-friendly fossil fuels except those that are kept in the ground. So where did this laughable line come from?
You may be surprised, but it turns out that “ethical oil” propaganda comes from the combined efforts of Ezra Levant and Thomas Ross. Levant isa Koch-fellowship-trained conservative Canadian pundit who was briefly a tobacco lobbyist and has been convicted of libel. Ross is a lawyer who is buddy with oil industry clients. Ross, with frontman and conservative politician Alykhan Velshi formed the “Ethical Oil Institute,” which is based on Levant’s falsehood-ridden book of the same name. They’ve been pushing this oil propaganda for over a decade now, and in 2014 were exposed as being behind a website attacking Neil Young for his activism, because they are absolutely the worst and have no respect for living legends.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/24/2054153/-Canada-s-Hydrocarbons-Don-t-Respect-Women-Children-or-the-Environment-And-There-Is-No-Ethical-Oil#view-story
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