Editor:

One would think when listening to all the rhetoric on the proposed pipeline coming through our area that we are close to Armageddon.

There is a pipeline running through Jasper Park and it has been there for over 40 years.

Did the tourists stop coming? No. Did all the animals disappear? No.  Did all the fish die where the pipeline crossed rivers, including the Fraser River? No. Did all the birds that flew over the pipeline die? No. Did the forests die along the pipeline? No.

If you didn't see the signs of warning of a high pressure pipeline you wouldn't even know it's there.

The proposed pipeline is estimated to bring in 240 billion dollars to the Canadian economy.

Money that will be needed for all users of taxpayer's money such as health care, schools, hospitals and First Nations.

For those who voted against the harmonized sales tax (HST) what is happening now?

The government doesn't have any money. It raises money through taxation and user fees. Since the demise of the HST due to an old gardener, resurrected out of a trash heap, who wanted a moment in the media, our fees for medical have gone up, just one amongst more to come.

Do you really think that Robert Redford and other such people really care about a pipeline in Canada?

They want their moment in the spotlight and then go back to driving their luxury cars around Hollywood.

Think about it.

It will bring jobs and revenue so that we can enjoy the life style that we are accustomed to, or go backwards like the countries in Europe.

Gary Hemmerling