Site C would offer ample opportunities
DEAR EDITOR:
Re: “Don’t blame the Green party,” (Herald letters, July 28).
I am not irrational against Greens, except for the phony ones and there are plenty around. You cannot change what is happening, but you can take advantage of what has occur. Losing land via the Site C dam presents an opportunity for the local Indian band. The huge lake to be created will make an ideal spot for tourism. The lake could be full of trout and people will travel at great lengths to fish.
The cheap power means there can be more lumber mills or even some new mines. Obviously, Patrick Longworth is not interested in seeing the locals develop what is being handed to them.
I must have missed it but I did not see Longworth's comments on Amazon building a huge solar panel farm in Vulcan County, Alta. This means all the wild animals, plus cattle, must find new homes. Yet solar panels are only 38% efficient, but to Greens that is great. Plus most of the panels cannot be recycled.
Wind power, another favourite of the Greens, is bad for the environment. If they are situated in the oceans they must be constantly sprayed to stop rusting. Hardly a boom for the fish. When the blades, which are mostly made from balsa wood of which China is deforesting Ecuador to get at, cannot be recycled. In the U.S. in one of Dakotas, there is a huge pit where all blades eventually end up.
Greenpeace it seems is always on Queen Street in downtown Auckland preaching how evil Canada is with the environment. Not once in more than 20 years have they ever commented on China, Russia, India and the U.S. — the four biggest polluters. The first three are responsible for roughly 38% of the GHGs. Canada is at 1.2% with the tar sands donating .1 of 1%.
Yet we are the worst. Go figure. In advance, I would like to thank Mr. Longworth as a dedicated Green he will be leading protests throughout Canada trying to end all drive-thrus one of the biggest polluters throughout Canada.
Then he will be joining Greenpeace, Tides, David Suzuki Foundation and other dedicated Greens’so-called charities in their sail boats as they are heading to China to protest the building of 400 coal-fuelled power plants, which are supposed to be in operation for the next 40 Years.
This means that for the next 40 years via the winds we will get their guck every day. Brian Merriam
Penticton