Time for Big Oil to Be Held Accountable

Canada, and indeed the world, should sue the big oil conglomerates for damages and compensation because of their reckless and wanton behaviour of continuing to produce and sell toxic fossil-fuel petroleum products which are currently destroying our planet’s ecosystems and causing incalculable physical personal injury to people. The continuance of this behaviour ultimately threatens the viability and future existence of the human species.

Let us remember that the oil industry previously utilized lead in gasoline long after lead had been recognized as a serious detriment to human health and it took legislation to make big oil stop using it. Even after legislation, it still took over two decades for lead to totally disappear from gasoline.

It is time for the oil industry to be held accountable as they voraciously and greedily acquire wealth for a few at the expense of the well-being of the general population. They may only care about life and profit in the present, but many, many more would like to see a good future life for themselves, their children and grandchildren.

I, for one, as an example, am tired of the forest fire smoke all summer long, so it is time we recognize big oil as the real culprits creating this and so many other health and environmental problems currently plaguing us. If it does not stop, it is only going to get much worse. Let’s do this. “Order in the court.”