Earth Day Lessons from the NDP
Today Carole James held an event to mark Earth Day. James took media on a three hour aerial tour of run-of-river clean energy projects that the NDP want to ban. Here are five things we learned:
- We already knew the NDP is opposed to clean energy projects. Today we learned that Carole James has never taken the time to visit even one of the clean energy projects she now wants to ban. “No I haven’t done a personal visit,” said James.
- On Earth Day, while encouraging other British Columbians to conserve energy, Carole James thought it was appropriate to burn over 400 litres of fuel on a three-hour charter plane tour. That’s enough fuel to drive a Toyota Prius to Ottawa and back.
- In fairness, she did say: “We used Harbour Air because they use carbon offsets.” The carbon offsets the airline uses are purchased from the same kind of clean energy projects Carole James highlighted on her tour as projects she wanted to ban. http://www.offsetters.ca/?q=learn (Look under ‘How do you choose which projects to fund?’)
- To add further irony to the day’s events, three of the operating clean energy projects Carole James chose to highlight as examples of projects she would ban were actually approved or completed under the NDP government of the 1990s
- Adding to the confusion, it was revealed today that NDP candidates Norm Macdonald and Scott Fraser had both betrayed their leader and endorsed the very same kind of clean energy projects that James would ban. http://www.bcliberals.com/NDPonIPPs-cont
