Canada’s Use of Renewables Belies Underlying Eco-Devastation

UK journalist Emma Websdale notes on my piece on Canada’s use of renewables: “Thanks for sharing this Craig, I had no idea that Canada was so ‘emissions friendly!’”

Thanks for writing, Emma.  It’s ironic.  Canada has renewable resources coming out its ears, especially hydro, and the wealth to take advantage of them – so all that’s going along well.  But the mayor of Toronto’s crack cocaine embarrassment is dwarfed by the antics of Prime Minister Stephen Harper in terms of environmental irresponsibility.

Harper is a climate change denier, which has the people who believe in science up there fairly cheesed off.  But it’s his actions, not his beliefs, that people find most objectionable.  In particular, he appears to be on a course to ruin the environment at the fastest possible rate with his exploitation of tar sands and shale gas.  The article linked above contains the following:

It means taking every drop of hydrocarbon out of the ground, whether it’s shale gas in New Brunswick or tar sands in Alberta and trying to destroy the environment as fast as possible, with barely a question raised about what the world will look like as a result.

It’s an ugly situation — and a weird one at that; Canada’s a pretty enlightened place; it’s hard to imagine how they wound up with “leadership” like that.