Penticton Herald

Green energy is hurting Canada

- Dear Editor: Alan Nichols Kelowna

It is apparent to me Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland are attempting to change Canada into something that nobody wants by offering a bribe to everyone: the sainthood of a socialist paradise featuring world saving green energy.

Unfortunat­ely, the experience in Ontario and California shows that green energy is a myth and will raise the price of energy in this country to astronomic­al levels and will leave the country without adequate energy at times when it is most needed:

— in the middle of winter when there is no sunlight and no wind

— in summer evenings when the sun goes down but the AC and other appliances blossom

The environmen­tal impacts of battery storage and creation of green energy devices such as photocell arrays and wind turbines are huge ecological footprint devastator­s that never actually contribute to a better energy envelope in their entire lifetime.

And anyone who tells you that they do has either a vested interest or has no real hard science in their background­s.

The environmen­talists told you to shut down nuclear power plants because they were environmen­tally unfriendly, and now many jurisdicti­ons world wide have reverted to coal to replace them. What were they thinking? Had they even bothered to think about the alternativ­es which had to be fossil fuel?

This is total nonsense.

There are two things the government of Canada must do if we are to survive as a nation.

1. Finish the Kinder Morgan pipeline and remove the ridiculous restrictio­ns on energy projects that have hampered

Canada over the last five years.

2. Build an energy east pipeline to transport needed energy to Eastern Canada to stop importing foreign oil, which only enriches foreign suppliers and negatively affects our economy.

Unfortunat­ely, I have no confidence this will be read or there is anyone in the Liberal Party with the intelligen­ce to see how devastatin­g their policies have been to Canada, not just Alberta and B.C.

It’s now the time to think before making the biggest mistake in the history of Canada. With less than 2% of the carbon produced in the world (ignoring the contributi­on of our boreal forests), Canada is trying to save the world by destroying our economy. The major contributo­r nations are ignoring the problem and certainly are not impressed by Canada, hence their rejection of Trudeau at the United Nations.

Canada will continue to be the biggest laughing stock in the World.

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