{"id":438,"date":"2014-01-15T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=438"},"modified":"2014-01-15T10:08:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T18:08:20","slug":"rocker-neil-youngs-oilsands-comments-missing-the-facts-saskatchewan-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/15\/rocker-neil-youngs-oilsands-comments-missing-the-facts-saskatchewan-premier\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocker Neil Young&#8217;s oilsands comments missing the facts: Saskatchewan premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-401\" style=\"width: 851px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1944185gt18bblflft43qn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-401\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of Neil Young\" src=\"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1944185gt18bblflft43qn.jpg\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1944185gt18bblflft43qn.jpg 851w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/1944185gt18bblflft43qn-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of Neil Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>REGINA\u2014Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says musician Neil Young\u2019s comparison of the oilsands to Hiroshima is insensitive and ignorant of the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Wall says he believes Young lost a lot of credibility by making the comments before a concert in Toronto on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Young held a news conference during which he compared the landscape at a Fort McMurray industrial site to the devastation caused by the atomic bomb in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Wall says he disagrees with how Young is characterizing the industry, but adds it\u2019s a free country and Young is welcome to speak his mind.<\/p>\n<p>The premier acknowledges more needs to be done for the environment, but he also suggests that Canada\u2019s record is better than any other oil-exporting country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Young is doing a four-city concert tour to raise money for an Alberta First Nation living downstream of the oilsands and is to perform Friday in Regina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REGINA\u2014Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says musician Neil Young\u2019s comparison of the oilsands to Hiroshima is insensitive and ignorant of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}