The econut industry is just a grand propaganda machine aimed at making as much money, and gaining as much power, as possible.  Pick out cute animals like seals and polar bears, find the "ugliest" clearcut and the "ugliest" example of oil extraction, such as a settling pond in the oilsands. 

Most of the public (especially urbanites, who live far away from any resource extraction industries) are easily fooled - they know very little about things such as resource management or the oil industry, and don't know any people employed by them. But those poor baby seals!

Ecos don't care if they put many Canadians out of work in the oil, forestry or other industries, or take income sources away from aboriginal hunters. They don't care that any cuts in oil production here will just be replaced by increases somewhere else. It is time for Canadians to wake up to their manipulations and realize they are hurting Canada.