{"id":18832,"date":"2016-03-14T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18832"},"modified":"2016-03-14T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:37:14","slug":"canadians-conflicted-about-3-es-environment-energy-and-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18832","title":{"rendered":"Canadians conflicted about 3 Es: Environment, energy and the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canadians conflicted about 3 Es: Environment, energy and the economy<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

EKOS-CBC poll suggests 56% more worried about the economy than the environment<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Alberta produces the most greenhouse gases of any province in the country, and has for more than a decade. (CBC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Justin and Leanne Mills are in a situation familiar to many Albertans these days.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Justin is still working as an oil well cementer in Lloydminster, but his income is down by 50 per cent and the family is dealing with a painful readjustment of their future.<\/p>\n

“For the first time in three years, I actually didn’t pay a bill,” said Leanne. “We didn’t have the money to pay it, so I pay a little on this one and all of that one, and the next month, I’ll pay the rest of that one and just try to keep up.”<\/p>\n

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\"MediaJustin and Leanne Mills are struggling to pay their bills as work dries up in Alberta’s oilpatch<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

‘We don’t have a big truck, or a big house, or fancy things and we’re still having trouble getting by.’<\/span>– Justin Mills,\u00a0oilwell<\/span>\u00a0cementer<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their struggles are one side of the conflict gripping Canadians right now as tension grows between the importance of the environment and the economy. A new CBC EKOS Research poll suggests the country is conflicted between the two priorities, especially when discussing the future of the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n

Leanne has been trying to get pregnant for four years and after a string of miscarriages, she began fertility treatments that cost $600 a month. But, with their drop in income, they can no longer afford the treatments.<\/p>\n

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“I turned 40 last November and when we spoke to our doctor last, I said that we might not be able to do this for a while,” Leanne said.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadians conflicted about 3 Es: Environment, energy and the economy EKOS-CBC poll suggests 56% more worried about the economy than the environment Alberta produces the most greenhouse gases of any province in the country, and has for more than a decade. (CBC) Justin and Leanne Mills are in a situation familiar to many Albertans these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[12936,1082,103,3000,141,246,12937,263,271,369,386,12384,7191,12260],"class_list":["post-18832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-3-es","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-cbc-news","tag-climate-change","tag-economy","tag-ekos-research","tag-energy","tag-environment-2","tag-global-warming","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-kyle-bakx","tag-survey","tag-tracy-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18833,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18832\/revisions\/18833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}