Murphy said the oil and gas industry has inexplicably, for the last 10 or 15 years, been vilified by the Liberal government and by environmentalists. “The oil and gas industry in this country has for the last 15 years, tacitly or explicitly, you have been declared a menace to the world. To support the oil and gas industry, as I have done, has been a wonderful way to harvest all sorts of extreme abuse,” said Murphy. “We have these dancers in Ottawa saying, ‘well, we can’t close down the oil and gas industry tomorrow’. That’s another thing that really, really astonishes me.

Source: CBC News June 03, 2022 23:13 UTC