If this on the up & up?

[ASRG]

Forage: Your description of the LA course at Olds is pretty accurate!
Look.....Bill 2 is one more step on the road to ending all private property. It was preceded by Bill 19, 50, 36, and 24. It will be followed by a bill in the spring to make amendments to the surface rights act and in all likelyhood an act to create a new "water market". The South Saskatchewan Regional Plan will be implemented (this is the one the government really wants...it will determine the rest of the regional plans)in 2013 under ALSA.
The overall goal of these various acts will reduce you the property owner to the status of little more than a tenant, with no control over what happens to your property. Whenever the government decides they can get rid of you! That is the goal.
Personally I have always believed the solution is political. Will the next party be any different than the last sell outs? They will if the party's constitution MUST be controlled by the grassroots constituency associations....with re call and citizen initiative referendum entrenched in the constitution.
That is the Wildrose party.

[forage]

I am sorry to say but asrg's predication is very probably closer to the truth than you think. The lobby by capp is so under handed and corrupt to dominate power over anything that is in their way and createss any obstacles that well have potential to stop their development. The development of shale gas and hydrofracing is in its earlier stages in Alberta and the only real challenges are the volumes of fresh water and capp knows full well that their experiences in US water was their obstacle and path of resistence from the rural people.

[grassfarmer]

Sad to say but this stuff was inevitable after the April
23rd result, that's when the damage was done. How
do we change that with a hugely urban electorate, so
many of whom have short term vision and oil linked
jobs? Not just the urban vote look how many of the
rural votes are oil linked - nearly every farm/ranch
operation in my immediate area is more reliant on the
oil patch than they are on agriculture for their
income.

One thing I've heard is that the NDP work with the
Wildrose and realise the priority is getting rid of the
Cons - meanwhile the Liberals sent out an email a
couple of weeks ago shooting arrows at the other
opposition parties insisting that the Liberals were the
only ones having their questions answered in the Leg
with the implication they were the only ones being
taken seriously.

I see ASRG's MLA making a name for herself and
getting on camera while we are playing "where's
Waldo" in our constituency. Reading the hansard
documents Joe has been active and able as usual but
why does he never get on camera or in front of a
microphone?

[ASRG]

grassfarmer: Be assured Joe is battling big time in the legislature! He is the guy leading the charge!
I am very disappointed with Energy Minister Ken Hughes. He comes from an old time respected ranching family. He knows better.

[grassfarmer]

I know Joe is working hard but why do we never see
him in the pictures or behind a microphone in the
news clips? It's always Danielle, the Anderson guy and
your MLA.