{"id":9628,"date":"2020-04-24T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/standing-up-for-the-canadian-oil-gas-industry\/"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:48:40","slug":"standing-up-for-the-canadian-oil-gas-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/standing-up-for-the-canadian-oil-gas-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Up for the Canadian Oil &#038; Gas Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To follow up on our posting <a href=\"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/boilermakers-support-the-canadian-oil-gas-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Boilermakers Support the Canadian Oil &amp; Gas Industry&#8221;<\/a>, the Canadian Action Centre has an online petition supporting the Industry. Learn more by reading the following.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #f9f9f9; border-left: 5px solid #366F7F; padding: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\"><b>Anti-pipeline groups continue to campaign against our responsible energy sector.<\/b>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over <b>25,000 people<\/b> have signed a petition from these anti-oil activists, asking the government not to support \u201cBig Oil\u201d. They claim to speak for oil and gas workers as they\u2019re actively campaigning to shut down our energy industry &#8211; eliminating our jobs, ending careers, and harming our communities.<\/p>\n<p><b>But who is &#8220;Big Oil&#8221;?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Oil\u201d is the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who would be out of work, without a pay cheque and without a career. \u201cBig Oil\u201d is big because it represents so many Canadians, so much of our GDP and so much of our economy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/STi4ULqXmzA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>That\u2019s why we need your help.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In just a few short days, <b>over 5,000 Canadians<\/b> like you took action and signed the open letter from oil and gas workers and their supporters. Many more shared this letter with friends and family, <b>reaching over 250,000 people<\/b> in just one week!<\/p>\n<p><b>But we can\u2019t stop now.<\/b> We still have far fewer signatures than those who want the end of Canadian oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>Will you please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadaaction.ca\/support-energy-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">share our open letter<\/a> with your friends, family and co-workers?<\/p>\n<p>Together, we can show that Canadians <b>DO<\/b> want to support energy workers and a strong oil and gas sector is important for Canada&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Canada Action<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Action Centre has an online petition supporting the Industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9630,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions\/9630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boilermaker.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}