LV 06
I embrace you last day of the year. Now in these final ticks of ’18 I can feel the exhaust fumes swirling around the very foundation at Shakey Pictures North HQ. And it gives me no comfort, no sense of solidarity, no idea how to internalize the dark power of this feeling, no idea how to turn it positive. I can’t wait to flip this calendar page.
The news that one of our great allies has grown exhausted by the battle to save Mother Earth and has left the fight was a blow. To further learn that Chief Alan Adam has signed a pack with the big oil was a gut shot. (Please see “Before and After. Honour The Treaties” in this Times Contrarian)
We rode together. We fought the greed machine together. We danced together. Many of the people of The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation became our sisters and our brothers. Now The Chief has grown too weary to fight on. Signed an agreement with 14 other Chiefs to partner up with big oil and to expand that horrid destruction of the great Boreal Forest and the very air we breathe.
I guess his spirit is exhausted. I get it. Exhaustion is a big part of the weaponry that big oil has long employed to grind down all opposition. These oil junkies and their apologists – amoral money/power addicts – are extremists. They are knowingly destroying our planet and it’s exhausting to watch. They’ve been buying off and corrupting greedy local politicians and officials for decades. Now they’ve purchased the presidency of the United States of America and they are gleefully destroying environmental protection legislation at home and around the globe. Terrorists all of them.
How much longer are we gonna let these beasts prevail? How much longer will we allow corporate profit-above-all extremists to dance away from their responsibility to Mother Earth? How much longer will we gaze into the expectant faces of our children and our grandchildren and do nothing to stop this destruction of home?
In the big story arc of The LincVolt Years you will journey to The Athabasca Tar Pit and meet Chief Alan Adam at the height of his amazing power when he was a proud warrior bound to protect Mother Earth. In those days he glowed in the sun.
You’ll met another Chief on our journey too – Chief Vern Janvier leader of the Chipewyan Prairie Dene First Nation. Chief Janvier also announced a new 2018 business venture recently. It’s a sustainable commercial laundry that’s clean and green and not at all exhausting. Big respect to Chief Vern Janvier.
Okay, back to the point. Root word: exhaust. Noun partner: Pipe.
This official out take dwells in the realm of ambitious process: the formidable evolution of LincVolt. This is an attempt to muffle and exhaust her first iteration with a rotary engine generator.
As we pick up the scene Larry – on camera and Neil – packing lunch, arrive at the garage to check out the latest attempt at noise/carbon/exhaust reduction:
The fumes of exhaustion may be swirling. But so too are the drums.
Resolved: do not let the motherfuckers grind you down.
Onward
the passenger