Send in the clowns

Rob Breakenridge, telling it like it is — again:

The events of last Thursday evening would seem to have laid bare the choice now confronting Albertans: either we can have a serious discussion about the future of this province’s energy sector, or we can have a discussion that involves Greenpeace. Clearly we cannot have both.

The only way in which their rafter-dangling stunt might have been more juvenile is if their unfurled banner had been emblazoned with “Grad ‘08″ in giant black letters. At least then we’d have been spared the pretension and sanctimony.

I heard about this event on the radio last week, and I was actually imagining Ed Stelmach’s name spelled with the ‘$’ sign. Lo and behold, I was right.

And Breakenridge is also right when he suggests that the time to stop paying attention to the cheap tricks of Greenpeace fools when it comes to making real, tangible decisions on the future of energy supply.