OTTAWA — In a Canadian oil industry town, schoolchildren singing about Santa’s sleigh going electric and images of Rudolph the reindeer with a fluorescent bulb for a nose has provoked a backlash. Parents who work in Canada’s struggling oil sector in Oxbow, Saskatchewan province, called the “Santa Goes Green” concert “a kick in the groin.”ADVERTISEMENT“It wasn’t even a Christmas concert at Christmas time,” said Mike Gunderman, whose daughter was in the play at the Oxbow Prairie Horizons school. Another person professed to be “appalled” by the play, noting that the oil industry donated money to enlarge the school. After loud complaints, school administrators apologized to Oxbow parents for denigrating a major employer in a community dotted with tens of thousands of oil and gas wells. Canada’s oil sector is the fourth largest in the world, but has struggled under low prices and a lack of pipelines to new markets.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 24, 2019 18:33 UTC