Renewable and clean energy is important for two major reasons. For one, the continual burning of Earth’s nonrenewable energy sources is causing our supply of fossil fuels to diminish, and eventually, die out. The more important reason, however, is the pollution that burning fossil fuels cause is mitigated by clean energy. British Columbia’s premier has declared that natural gas, when used to refine liquid natural gas, is now green energy.
This is a problem for how the world views natural gas. Liquid natural gas is indeed a green energy supply, and does more to help reduce carbon footprint than the refining natural gas does to harm it, but there are cleaner ways to achieve this energy. The other reason is that it’s still using a non-renewable resource to fuel this method of power, meaning that this half baked solution is only a stopgap measure.
NDP energy critic John Horgan said that this decision was made rashly. “She’s going to designate natural gas a clean energy in one area for one purpose and it remains dirty in every other corner of the province,” he said. Horgan went on to say that such a decision needs to be made at a vote of the public, not as a footnote in a speech, and nothing could be further from the truth.
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