I'm pretty conservative when it comes to the environment

[Jesus Saves]

I want to conserve what we have left.

[Webster Green]

1. Exactly!

I'm actually conservative when it comes to government. I long for the days of checks and balances and fiscal responsibility in government.

The boys running the show now are radical extremists who are doing away with out Constitution. There is absolutely nothing conservative about these people.

[Robbien]

2. Did you hear how Canadian oil sands are harvested ?

Much of the production comes from strip mining forested land in a region about the size of Florida. To prepare the site, workers clear-cut stands of spruce, jack pine and aspen. Then earthmovers scalp the soil, sometimes removing 100 feet or more of earth to reach the oil sands. The industry refers to such land as "disturbed." So far 162 square miles have been disturbed. Eventually that will rise to 682 square miles, or about three times the land area of the City of Chicago.

The law requires oil companies to eventually restore the strip-mined land, with final approval by the provincial government. So far none has been approved, though the oil industry says there is no question the land will be reclaimed.

:cry: