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This book outlines the great resource strength of the Canadian oil and gas industry but in the broader sense it details a struggle between private industry and endless government bureaucracy and never-ending virtue-signaling debate. I have become increasingly troubled in recent years over the direction which our government and our society have been taking. North America was built on Free Enterprise and personal initiative. It remains the basis of democracy and productivity in spite of how much popular socialists would like to claim to the contrary. The two big tools of this threat are Climate Hysteria and Covid 19 shutdowns. They are being misused to put forward ever-increasing government bureaucracy and control. The book documents the fallacy of Climate Hysteria. It outlines how resource development is the creator of Indigenous opportunity as opposed to the threat to rights put forward by media and government. Government handouts are in dire circumstances sometimes needed BUT they are not, in the long run, the answer. The oil and gas experiences are detailed herein but they are applicable to broader society both in Canada and the United States.
About the author
Walter Benstead worked in the oil and gas industry as a Geologist since 1965. During that time projects and employment have extended across Canada and overseas. Walter has a BSc Hons in Geology from Western University. My first assignment involved doing surface geology in the Canadian Arctic Islands. It taught more geology than any textbook or Professor. From doing surface geology moved on to wellsite geology in Northern Alberta and Libya with a major oil company. I spent most of my career years working as an independent. Later experience was with small Canadian "start-ups" My experience of this is that Free Enterprise and personal initiative work. Government handouts do not. The current Canadian Government is going in the exact opposite direction and will destroy the economy. With the recent American election, they could fall into the same trap. When I went to University I was taught how to think not what to think. I was given a solid geological science base but more importantly the tools to learn what I needed to know in science, industry, and beyond.
