There is a renewable fuel called wood — environmentally friendly, when properly done, plentiful forever! Renewable! Affordable! The plants love it, they breathe the exhaust and convert it for us... and grow twice as much and give us clean air abundantly and free.
LNG is only making a few rich for awhile... then it will crash, because clean, renewable energy has proven affordable and is powering over half of Germany already, with two million people being employed in it. Don’t even let the LNG debate go on…first, establish the following:
• $1 billion guarantee/insurance policy up front from the proponents, before a shovel in the ground and then everything on the table, documented and signed first, before anybody starts.
• A guarantee that we have a two-tier gas price system, household gas and domestic CNG transportation fuel provided and the domestic gas price, not locked into the spot price of gas exported.
• Limitation of how much gas could be exploited for LNG conversion, before Canada is suffering.
• Guarantee that our hydro bills will not go sky high, by necessitating to build Site C dam for the exuberant amount energy needed to produce LNG.
• That while exporting LNG, the wastewater created by fracking would be treated simultaneously and cleaned up in a way that’s satisfactory to the public at large.
• That any profit would be taken right away, with no concessions and invested, not necessarily to reduce the deficit, but injected in the production of clean, renewable energy first.
New York State announced the NYSERDA Renewable Heat NY (RHNY) campaign, including financial incentives for biomass technologies, starting this July. This includes residential customers and businesses. The state-funded initiative seeks to build awareness among homeowners and business, along with an entire support structure for biomass heating, including workforce for installation and product development, bulk wood fuel delivery and a number of state building conversions, fuelled by direct cash incentives to reduce upfront costs and bring the incentives to the market.
Hans Schaer
Squamish
P.S. — It would be honourable if those that are now elected and would want to run again this November and any other potential candidates running were to sign and come forward to state their position on LNG, with guarantees, to fulfill their platforms if elected
