“Doxx your employees or I’ll whine that we don’t have enough info from the gov” must have been the threat - probably into an iPhone held like a pizza slice - that prompted this article.
Except there’s no way you should get the personal info of a private citizen without the courts being involved.
there’s no way you should get the personal info of a private citizen without the courts being involved.
The public servants described in this article were involved in a fuckup that cost thousands of people safe drinking water. Journalists should be able to find them so they can hold the government to account.
…[BC Hydro] says that is mostly because women are underrepresented in trades jobs with high salaries and overrepresented in administrative jobs with lower salaries.
For example, 98 per cent of power line technicians — the most common job at BC Hydro — are men. Those workers have a mean hourly wage that is 33 per cent higher than that of field service administrators, 94 per cent of whom are women.
The article does claim that other jobs of similar experience and education requirement had a pay gap but didn’t offer any examples. I do think there is a gender pay gap that goes beyond taking overtime and the nature of particular jobs (field vs. office), but I need better insight on the data than what The Tyee brings to this article.
Most tree planters would agree. The industry has a high rate turnover so half the people who do it don’t stick around long enough to really wrap their minds around how bad it is. I spent over a decade in the industry and planted a little over 1.3 million in that time, but I don’t tell people about it IRL because I got sick and tired of cringing with my entire being every time someone thanked me for it.
The saddest part is that in my experience, companies doing carbon credits or naturalization projects do a far worse job than the logging companies. We had a recurring contract with the carbon farmer where we went to the same fields year after year and planted trees that immediately died due to poor stock selection and ground preparation. They don’t have the regulation and oversight that the logging companies do. They also profit from convincing people to pay them to plant so it is in their best interests those trees die so they can maximize their profits with less land use.
Not only that, but the logging industry has a legal obligation to reforest areas they logged and ensure those trees reach free growing status. A legal obligation that is enforced better than most environmental regulations in the country. The logging companies wouldn’t plant trees AT ALL without it. In places like Russia where there isn’t that regulation, they just let the cut blocks regenerate slowly on their own because its so much cheaper.
Of course, the stereotype is mostly a product of marketing. Fewer than 100,000 of the ~2 million workers in Alberta are employed in oil and gas. Whereas 1.5 million of them are employed in services of some sort. 81% of Alberta is urban, which is in line with the Canadian average. The average Albertan is pretty much the same as the average Canadian, an underpaid urban service worker. With a small, well paid minority of workers who really mess up the stats.
I was in a bar stateside once and met another Canadian, we got to talking about our most and least favourite cities and I mentioned that I find Calgary to be my least favourite major city. She asked why and I told her I find it to be a bit fake, among other things. She asked me what I meant by fake and I told her, ‘In Calgary the Realtors wear cowboy hats on their billboard ads, have you ever seen a Realtor in Halifax wearing a Sou’Wester?’
Anyway, this is just to agree that the perception is not unearned, their governments and local marketers chose to present them this way.
I seem to remember coming across some crude as a kid, not like in the wild, but when I was with my dad on deliveries. This would have been back when the tar sands were still un/starting to be developed. The shit stinks like crazy if I remember right, and its gross to touch. Think I seen crude, tar sands, and refined oil all in the same place, point in time. Cant remember the context around why I was able to get that close to it, so, hell its so fuzzy, it might have even been a dream at this point
Smelly sounds about right. The Canadian stuff (or at least the tar sands stuff) is really high in sulpher, too, to the point where we’re a pretty big exporter of it as a refining byproduct. A big part of the reason they don’t give crude to just anybody is that it occasionally belches out a potentially toxic amount of hydrogen sulphide (H2S).
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