Letter to the editor ...

Arecent Canadian Press article reports the Alberta Government is contemplating tax breaks for oil and gas companies to encourage the clean-up of wells that are not producing.

The game is given away in the opening sentence where it points out that well clean-up is a legal obligation of the companies, which they took on when they were granted their lease.

We should not be surprised to take including Coronal, Prevlix, Kolaxen and Garbarsia and off you go. Whee! Look at you going running on the beach, flying a kite with your grandkids. If only life were that miraculous.

The other comedic thing is the disclaimer list of possible side effects from the medications. Of course, all those could be fixed by taking additional medications, including my pretend Brain-fizz and Ezedozit twice a day before meals!

If all of these drugs worked as advertised, we’d all be on them so we could champion our own fields. Maybe I could win the Tour de the UCP is giving public dollars to oil companies at a time when, financially, they are doing very well. After all, this is not a government that serves Albertans –it sees that its mission is to serve oil companies. So the government will take public dollars and put them in the pockets of millionaires, many of whom don’t even reside in Alberta. A recent CBC news article pointed out that although profits in oil and gas are at record levels, reinvest- ment in Alberta has fallen off dramatically. This means any money going to relieve companies of their legal responsibilities to clean up well sites will simply be pocketed.

France at age 73 with some legal hemorrhoid meds called Asteroids. I am looking into it as we speak.

The attraction of these solutions to our physical woes is the quick fix. Remember the old Alka-Seltzer advertising jingle, “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is”. That’s what everyone is looking for instead of taking responsibility for their overall health by exercising and eating well.

As long as humans continue wolfing down gobs of fat and burning the candle at both ends, we will reach for fast relief. Pass the Asteroids, please!

Where will the money come from that we will give to these carpetbaggers? It will be taken from programs like education, social services, or other government departments that serve the needs of Albertans.

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