Tune: Let It Snow

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9wiJjPZH6c

The climate outside is frightful

So it’s time to be insightful

Mining coal in an open pit?

Are we nuts? What a crock! Get a grip!

Our planet is slowly dying

And on coal, we’re still relying???

Our world is now all ablaze

So we’re DONE, dirty coal, bad old days.

When we’ve finally seen the light

That Alberta to its shame will not save

Our pristine rivers from this blight

Ridin’ that coal lobby wave!

The time is long past for pining

We say NO to coal strip-mining

But so long as the province dares

Write the Feds! Try the Feds! Join who cares!

The Ottawa Climate Minister

Has some clout for things so sinister

There’s federal tools to use  

Legislate, consul-tate, have reviews!

When we’ve finally seen the light

That Alberta to its shame will not save

Our pristine rivers from this blight

Ridin’ that coal lobby wave

The sheep with big horns will thank you

So will bears; the owls will hoot too

Since the fish have no place to go

Keep the coal in the ground… Just say no!

Hear your Grans, write the feds, roar like us…

Stop the Coal, on Eastern Slopes, Make a Fuss!!

The Calgary Raging Grannies, spring 2020, after the UCP government regressively struck down an early 70s ruling by the Progressive Conservatives  to stop strip mining in Alberta.  An Australian company has since bought land close to Blairmore and has already started construction with the UCP government’s blessing, though the Federal Government is examining the situation.

Tune: Bicycle Built for Two

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE1SHKcbs0A

Jason, Jason  

Give us your answer do!

We’re half crazy,

‘Cos of the things you do.

Our kids and our health must matter

More THAN the oil you flatter

So YOU’LL look sweet, the day you tweet

That you’ll PRIORIZE health care too!

Jason, Jason 

Give us your answer do!

We’re half crazy,

‘Cos of the things you do.

Our kids and our health must matter

More THAN the oil you flatter

So YOU’LL look sweet, the day you tweet

There’s more MONEY for classrooms too!

Jason, Jason 

Give us your answer do!

We’re half crazy,

‘Cos of the things you do.

Environment too must matter

More THAN the oil you flatter

So YOU’LL look sweet, the day you tweet

Of a GREEN future here….YA-HOO!!

Calgary Raging Grannies, Feb. 2020

 There's a cycle, a roller coaster
 In Alberta, that’s our fate.
 Selling oil as fast as we can --
 As if the stuff went out of date.
  
 There's a crisis, that’s for certain
 In our minds and on our land
 A fire sale to sell our bitumen
 Cannot be our energy plan.
  
 Production’s rising, can you believe it?
 Drilling MORE is the party line.
 To hell with climate, countries dying
 More oil out means more pipeline. 
  
 How to flip this, that's the question
 Please Albertans, have some guts!
 We need DE-growth on our planet
 Stop expanding, are we nuts?
  
 At least a fee that taxes carbon 
 Rightly makes the user pay.
 If you have another plan, dear
 Tell us now….not Apocolypse day.
  
 Hear your Grannies, heed our warning
 The earth has limits to its growth
 Dying icebergs, dying people
 Hear your Grannies, enough’s enough! 


Calgary Raging Grannies, 2019  

Tune: My Darling Clementine

There’s a cycle, a roller coaster

In Alberta, that’s our fate

Selling oil as fast as we can —

As if the stuff went out of date.

Not to mention, piddly royalties

For those of us, who own the stuff

Corporate oil tears, oh such hooey

Every quarter, earnings up. 

There’s a crisis, that’s for certain

In our brains and on our land

A fire sale to sell our bitumen

Cannot be the energy plan.

Production’s rising, can you believe it?

More fossil fuel is the party line!

The experts tell us we need to leave it

But more oil out, so more pipeline. 

Our problem is, consumption’s GROWING

People, give your heads a shake

Our poor climate, kicked and battered

The very planet is at stake.

How to crack this, that’s the question

Please Albertans, have some guts

We need DE-growth on our planet

Stop expanding, are we nuts?

Hear your Grannies, stop stupid buying….

Earth has limits to its growth

Oceans gagging, people dying

Heed your Grannies, enough’s enough!

[Slowly, wearily ….]

At least we have a carbon tax that

Seeks to make the users pay…..

If you have another plan, dear

Tell us now, not Apocolypse day.

Granny Lynn, Calgary Raging Grannies, April 2019

Oh – Warming signs, warming signs

We’ve ignored the proof

Oh what fun it was to hide

From an inconvenient truth

Warming signs, warming signs

It’s time we faced the facts

With greenhouse gases on the rise

We need that carbon tax

Permafrost is melting

Ocean temperatures rise

All those cattle belching

Send methane to the skies

The carbon in the air

Is causing floods and droughts

Plastics everywhere

We have no time for doubts

Oh – Warming signs, warming signs

We must do something fast

Our world must stop reliance on

The planet’s oil and gas.

Author: Revised by Granny Susan, Calgary Raging Grannies

Date Last Used by YYC Grannies:  May 2018

Copyright: None