Staying Awake In Alberta - Out of Site - Out of Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xRQt3Q0xPc  

The election is over.  Why do the media in Canada ignore this topic?   If you live in rural Alberta you may now or soon will be getting your drinking water from a regional pipeline connected to a river system.  Why do we need this to stay healthy? In the video above "Jessica Ernst" speaks of her truth to the most important issue facing future generations of life on the planet.

It became clear in the latest election in Alberta the political parties and media picked up on our sexual repressed human rights issues.  What about the right to clean - safe - drinking water?  Just because the water looks clear does not mean it may not be dangerous to consume or use.  The ongoing violence and abuse by the misogynistic culture of entitlement and power of the real rulers of Alberta (the oil and gas - energy industries) in this fascist state leave the citizens abused victims.  When people try to figure out why an abused person finds it difficult to leave it is often due to the invalidation and control by fear the other has over them.  The citizens are aware but like any mob continue in denial or like the rabid sports fans at hockey - football - extreme fighting events do not recognize the violence and how they dispense their deeply rooted expressions of their own invalidation in their past.  Most of us have our mark of "voldemort - the one that can not be named!"  but we do not recognize the violence that our culture has inoculated or acculturated us with.

In the past forty years - I have seen destruction of water wells that fed communities and people.  Oil spills that have contaminated the water in many Alberta communities.  The Town of Innisfail - used water wells dug by the CPR in 1890's to provide the water for the steam trains as a community source of water.  This town source water was used until drilling for oil and gas in the region began in the 1960's and by the 1990's the water was unfit for human consumption - smelled of rotten eggs - hydrogen sulphide dissolved in the water.  Where I currently reside beside the Athabasca River  within the published  fishing guide that accompanies a licence to fish in the rivers in  Alberta a warning to fisherman not to consume the fish (as it is a threat to life - especially for pregnant women) from the Athabasca river is published.

In the current pro - oil propaganda the idea of "natural occurring" contaminants within the water of the Athabasca river could be a fact.  A University of Calgary - Hydrologist has pointed out that over 80 percent of water flowing in most rivers in Alberta is sourced from ground water.  Ground water comes from the underground aquifers that flow across the province at various depths of the geological strata.  With the millions of oil and gas wells now drilled throughout our province what assurance is there for the "natural occurring" pollutants in the rivers that they are not residual collateral damage to the lives of all people living in Alberta and across western Canada? 

As a family violence program facilitator - the violence in the "body politic" - and the invalidation of people who speak up and speak the truth is mirrored in the children who attend our schools.  Our grandchildren and life on planet earth hangs in the balance.  Meanwhile the institutions of higher learning have adopted the sinister approach of the Milfoy's - group as known in the Harry Potter Chronicles using their wizardry for evil rather than the common good for all.  See previous post Expensive Lipstick

I belong to a church that appears to fiddle while Rome burns as the organization reorganizes it's state of affairs to match its relevancy.  Trying out new models of leadership - unconscious of its colonialism mind set of its arrogance and supremacy and inculcated racism.   I know that my statement may be an example of invalidation of others' own person and may lead to my own crucifixion but to hide my "enlightenment under a bushel basket" may only be a rant until one day people will wonder who were the voices that tried to let us know?  Which is truth -  To be right when everyone else believes your are wrong or to be wrong until others realize you were right?  I am not sure which side of truth I stand - but I sense the feeling of being on the cross.  When will resurrection of the truth become part of the mindset of Albertans and all Canadians?

Hope resides in sharing and recognizing my own dangerous tendencies and how deep my denial can lay a blanket over my mind. 

Meanwhile I will go plant my potatoes - as I can expect to live beyond the coming winter and will need food to sustain me.  Perhaps like my forefathers from Tipperary, Ireland the blight will cause me and my family to move.