David Staples: If anyone can persuade Trudeau to end his disastrous spirit quest on renewable energy, it's Michael Shellenberger

It has been indicated that Michael Shellenberger is a person with the knowledge, passion, and credibility to move Trudeau.

There is certainly a brilliant way to build Canada with cleaner energy and higher levels of prosperity. However, the reality is that unfortunately, it is not the way Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proposes, with his revolutionary change to the renewable energies of oil and gas.

In fact, it could be said that Trudeau’s road has been tested at a huge cost in places like California and Germany, but has done little to reduce carbon emissions while increasing the cost of energy. Fortunately, there is at least one person with the knowledge, passion, and credibility to move Trudeau. That is Michael Shellenberger, North America’s leading public intellectual on clean energy.

Capacity in one person

Michael Shellenberger is an American author, environmental policy writer, co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and founder of Environmental Progress. He was named Heroes of the Environment of Time magazine (2008), winner of the 2008 Green Paper Award, co-editor of Love Your Monsters (2011) and co-author of Break Through (Houghton Mifflin 2007) and The Death of Environmentalism (2004). He and his co-author Ted Nordhaus have been described as “ecological modernists” and “eco-pragmatists.” In 2015, Shellenberger joined 18 other self-described ecomodernists to be co-authors of an ecomodernist manifesto. On November 30, 2017, he announced during a New York Times conference that he would run for governor of California in 2018.

Now, it is clear that Canada should take advantage of its impressive strength in nuclear energy and its potential for liquefied natural gas exports, says Shellenberger.

This will really help the country reach or exceed its climate commitments while building its wealth, unlike Trudeau’s Liberal plan that will destroy the economy and will not come close to curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

What there is no doubt about it that the future of Alberta and Canada depends on realizing the concrete facts about the only sensible plan to combat climate change, with liquefied and nuclear natural gas manufactured in Canada.

Source: David Staples, Edmonton Journal | National Post