I went out quading to Edson this past weekend and there is lots of oil/gas/mining going on and they destroy the trees, land and everything in their way. Why is it ok for them to destroy nature without bounds but quaders get such a bad rap and we do a fraction of the damage by comparison? I have always figured it is because the government is making money off the oil/gas/mining so they turn a blind eye to these companies and quading they make no money so they don’t care if it is shutdown. Trails made by quaders will grow over in a couple years to the point you can't even recognize there was a trail but the excavator tracks and clear cutting trees to make paths will take many years longer. As I was quading we came across a site that had used oil drums littered everywhere along with ripped tarps in the trees, big plastic water containers and other random junk all over the site. It looks like the operation that was once using the site picked up and left and did not take any of their garbage with them but I bet they made lots of money off the site. Some of the oil drums had rusted out, leaking oil into the streams and all over the grass. It's ridiculous to see the mass destruction to nature going on in the oil/gas/mining industries and it’s unfortunate no one holds the companies accountable for the damage they are doing.
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