I've noticed over the years that a good number of anti oil activists are nothing but shills for the nuclear industry. Lately there are quite a few that are shilling for the taxpayer subsidized solar and wind power. SHould make the blowhards stand in front of a windmill when they speak.
Coal is both cleaner and safer.
This should have been clear to the "environmentalists" from the very beginning. The staggering amount of environmental damage that the hydroelectric plants have caused should knock any of these supporters out of the ball-park. And the lack of any method to safely store nuclear wastes is another.
We are very close to being able to build nuclear power plants that do not generate wastes with a long radioactive life but by this time the environmentalists are fighting those.
Coal power plants don't generate as much CO2 each year as the forest fires that rage across the nation most of which are started by things like car collisions and campfires improperly tended. The adzes that are crying the most about coal power are the ones generating more CO2 than these same plants.
Not that it matters since CO2 only improves plant growth and has no effect on climate. You'd think that anyone that discovered that CO2 is a "TRACE GAS" would be able to figure that out for themselves. 78% of the atmosphere is nitrogen, 21% is oxygen, 0.66% is argon and CO2 is only 400 parts per million. What sort of sucker would fall for the idea that CO2 controls anything other than increasing photosynthesis in plants?
You should ask him about the sea battles he was in against the Soviets while in the 1970's Canadian Navy.
Maybe he was in the Canadian Air Force and flew on missions next to us in B52's.
