{"id":53,"date":"2026-04-02T22:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/?p=53"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:50:13","slug":"the-politics-of-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/the-politics-of-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Betrayal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Oil_Sands_Discovery_Centre_3-1024x726-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Oil_Sands_Discovery_Centre_3-1024x726-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Oil_Sands_Discovery_Centre_3-1024x726-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Oil_Sands_Discovery_Centre_3-1024x726-1-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>The December 2025 Memorandum of Understanding between Alberta and Canada is a bitter mouthful of greenwashing; a concoction sufficiently noxious to repulse all but the most gullible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among other things, the MOU supports increasing tar sands oil production while simultaneously reaching \u201cnet-zero emissions\u201d from that production, constructing the massive Pathways carbon capture and storage project, and getting the private sector to build another bitumen pipeline to the coast, primarily for export to Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Pembina Institute, production of Alberta tar sands oil emits more than four times as much CO2 as most other oil production in North America. While there are some ways to reduce the amount of CO2 required to get the tar out of the ground and into a pipeline, they are expensive and experimental. Most are decades away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one line on politics \/ environment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/233.srajak.imgd.ca\/project-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}