Thread by @youseepeeYYC

Having travellers quarantine would basically shut down fly-in-fly-out workers at oil camps like those owned by CNRL, which have been hubs of covid spread.

Oil and Gas doesn’t love you back.

Voting Conservative has consequences.

#ableg #cdnpoli

https://twitter.com/CBCCalgary/status/1392438374846316548

I wonder how the current #CNRL outbreak compares to earlier outbreaks at #Cargill and ther meat processing plants?👇

https://twitter.com/andreanewillia1/status/1392517362545463300?s=21

#CNRL received $192,648,603.55 from the federal government in CEWS benefits in 2020, but would not keep their workers safe.

Where did all that money go?

#BoycottUCPdonors #ableg #abpoli

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https://twitter.com/youseepeeYYC/status/1374575881058848771

Was AER equipped to enforce @AHS_media health guidelines during the pandemic?

By February 202 the Alberta Energy Regulator laid off 200 more employees after the Crown corp’s funding was cut by 22% in the fall [2019] budget

via @sarahcrgr #ableg #abpoli

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Last spring, the #UCP appointed Laurie Pushor to oversee the AER. He was central to a Saskatchewan land-deal scandal that cost taxpayers $millions & and prompted an RCMP investigation.

via @jennierussell_ & @charlesrusnell
#skpoli #ableg #abpoli
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

Just a few weeks ago, "The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which encompasses Fort McMurray, declared a state of local emergency as the coronavirus spreads out of control in northern Alberta."

#ableg #FiretheUCP

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By April 29th, "at least 859 oilsands workers were active COVID-19 cases. Workplace outbreaks in Fort McMurray include 22 active cases. There [were] 14 school outbreaks, eight schools have between two and four active cases."

via @vincemcdermott #abpoli

fortmcmurraytoday.com/news/local-new…

“I was scared, yeah… the thing is dying alone, nobody there to say bye to or nothing like that. It was scary."

"The outbreak at #CNRL Horizon currently sits at 1361 cases--the largest workplace outbreak since the pandemic began."

via @HeatherYourex

globalnews.ca/news/7852937/o…

"Yes, they want to work — but they want to work in conditions that are safe, and as it stands right now, conditions are not safe in most if not all #oilsands-related construction projects."

--@gilmcgowan on the #CNRL outbreak

#AbLeg #canlab #ymm
globalnews.ca/news/7852937/o…

How did we get to this point?

As far back as February, @GovNL was "warning rotational workers at 13 out-of-province sites about confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks at workplaces, with all but two in the Alberta oilsands." via @jasonfherring

#ableg #abpoli #ymm
calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…

It was known to @GovNL in February that cases were rising in #ymm worksites, but the #UCP did nothing then to prevent those cases.

"There is nothing from the Alberta government."
-Chief Allan Adam, April 28th.

via @ryanjespersen #RealTalkRJ

#ableg

https://twitter.com/ryanjespersen/status/1387466239522447363?s=20

Just days before that #RealTalkRJ interview with Chief Allan Adam, Kenney blamed #ymm's high rates on First Nations instead of companies like #CNRL.

“The population up there is disproportionately Indigenous,” said @jKenney.

via @vincemcdermott

edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…

The Athabasca Tribal Council (AthabascaTC) issued this statement as a response to the #UCP leader's racist remarks.

"NEWS RELEASE: INDIGENOUS GROUPS OF RMWB ACCUSE PREMIER KENNEY OF PRIORITIZING PROFITS OVER LIVES"

They are correct.

cc: @N8V_Calgarian

https://twitter.com/AthabascaTC/status/1387149471339978752?s=20

To review: the #UCP pretend to care about oil & gas workers.

@jkenney even wore an "I heart oil & gas" hoodie to a @calstampeders game.

But when push came to shove, it is clear that the #UCP will do nothing to protect workers. #ableg #CNRL

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https://twitter.com/youseepeeYYC/status/1367388844044161024?s=20

#CNRL paid their executive chairman, N Murray Edwards $13,566,251 and their president, Tim McKay $7,778,219 in total compensation for 2020

#CNRL also took in $192,648,603.55 from the federal government in CEWS benefits.

#ableg #BoycottUCPdonors
source:web.archive.org/web/2021051303…

N. Murray Edwards, who owns the @NHLFlames & @calstampeders, started a dark money group to influence Alberta politics called "Alberta Enterprise Group."

They are a major supporter of the #UCP, so @jkenney has been protecting them, not workers.

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https://twitter.com/youseepeeYYC/status/1340409590299516928

The #UCP have placed the profits of #tarsands companies like #CNRL above the health and wellbeing of workers and their families.

Kenney has deflected blame from those companies, & used First Nations as scapegoats for #Covid19 outbreaks in #YMM.

#ableg #abpoli #FiretheUCP

Today, in a single hospital in Fort MacMurray there are 43 people fighting COVID-19 with 10 in ICU.

All of the #UCP's politicking up to this point did not prevent their suffering.

#COVID19 #ableg #ymm

https://twitter.com/vincemcdermott/status/1392608327654207491

I think I'll end this thread here.

I'll let @vincemcdermott and @laurabeamish16 have the last word with their report today on #COVID19AB in Fort McMurray and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.

"1,515 active cases (127 new cases)."

#ymm #RMWB

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