This weekend, Suzanne Goldenberg from Raw Story reported that Canada’s British Columbia province handed Big Oil a major setback when they rejected plans for the planned pipeline for transporting oil from the Canadian Tar Sands. Who can blame them? The oil companies seem to wreck everything they touch.

Christopher Jones — a lawyer representing the B.C. province — described concerns about oil companies constructing and drilling through pristine and ecologically sensitive areas, and pointedly explained during a Canadian government’s review of the project:

Northern Gateway has presented little evidence about how it will respond in the event of a spill … It is not clear from the evidence that Northern Gateway will in fact be able to respond effectively to spills either from the pipeline itself, or from tankers transporting diluted bitumen

Gee,who can blame Jones for thinking that way? The oil companies have caused damage in Arkansas, Detroit, and the Gulf of Mexico — plus a multitude of other places — and now refuse to pay medical bills for the hapless workers who’ve cleaned up their toxic sludge.

And who can blame the folks who protest? Who wants toxic sludge in their back yard?

Oh wait … Fox News’ Neil Cavuto has reason to oppose all those Keystone Pipeline protesters in Chicago — who ardently want President Barack Obama to reject the latest Keystone Pipeline proposal — because they’re all so danged obstinate and not getting with his program.

On Saturday, June 1st, Cavuto snarled:

All right, you might want to get this straight because I can’t, but the green crowd’s at it again, demanding the president block the Keystone Pipeline. And anti-fracking laws are getting support across the country. If the environmentalists get their way, who pays?

A few panelists offered their disparaging opinions on the protesters, then Fox connected remotely to Ben Stein — a has-been actor and conservative political commentator — who declared:

This isn’t really about policies, this is about attracting attention, for the protesters to have something to do, as if they’re morally superior to their parents.

[Cavuto smirked and chuckled, along with his fellow panelists]

Protests of this kind, they’re a psychological issue, they’re not an economic or political issue … they’re about a mental disease or defect …

[Alas, the final dregs of Stein’s wisdom were drowned by Cavuto’s loud and hearty guffaws]

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