Open letter to Mr. Dan Woynillowicz

danw@pembina.org

Dear Mr. Woynillowicz

Your publication “Oil Sands Fever The Environmental Implications of Canada’s Oil Sands Rush” and others you have contributed to are very informative. I like the photos and pleasing layouts making interesting and highly readable documents.

I have three things to ask you hoping that you may comment and/or direct me as per below (Items 2 and 3 are the really important ones):

1. Do you know of, have access to, or can refer me to somebody who has some time laps movie(s) of an oil related development?

a. Ideally I would like time laps movies of some facilities being built in the tar sands but things such as modules or even unrelated building (houses, etc.) being built would be OK.

b. I want to show a sort 5-10 second clip of something being built as part of a presentation I am developing for my work.

2. I am interested in specifically reducing our resource exports to the USA and would like to contribute to realising this in a manner other than quitting my job.

a. I am an instrumentation designer and my designs have been and are right now being built and installed in Alberta to help get the oil for, among others, the Americans.

b. My reasons for reducing resource supplies to the USA are perhaps radical. However, they parallel the concerns of environmental and aboriginal interests.

c. Basically I want to save resources for the future and use what we have to ease and enable the planet’s transition to a better future civilisation.

d. In my opinion a significant portion of the resources we are currently selling are used for directly destructive (war) efforts. None of which improve the overall condition of humanity.

e. Wise planetary energy management is needed and I want to help promote and even contribute to that.

3. This region of the planet, mid to north Alberta and Saskatchewan, my home, is the local of a very large amount of energy, hydrocarbon and uranium.

a. I feel we, Albertans - Saskatchewan residents – Canadians, are in the enviable position of being able to vastly help or greatly harm the world.

i. We improve the world by exercising our right to sell resources to those who do no harm.

ii. We can do great harm by remaining apathetic and let other government/business take from us to do what ever great and sad things they choose.

b. Currently things are going such that we will loose our resources and after we do the world will not be that much better a place for us. We will be poor.

c. Alternatively by essentially dictating the way our resources are used by selecting who we sell to or what they can do with our resources, we, and we alone, can provide a much better planetary future than the current outlook is giving.

i. We can do this by not selling resources to those we deem use them inappropriately.

ii. We can do this by raising the prices of our resources to extremely high levels to those governments/businesses that do not conform to improving the world over the next several hundred years.

iii. In my opinion inappropriate use of our resources, my resources, is to put them into war and destructive planetary take-over efforts. Especially when this waste is done by the most materially advanced, morally poor, and destructive force on the planet, the USA.

I can perceive that my opinions are not something that you wish to be associated with except that perhaps we agree that something better needs to be done.

To that end I am seeking your guidance,

Thank you for your attention,

Dennis G. Dahl