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The whole world wants Canada’s natural gas, except it seems, Canada. We’ve got Germany and Japan, along with a long list of other countries begging us to sell gas to them.

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We not only want to keep it from them, there’s a growing movement to stop all use of natural gas.

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It’s not just the spurious claim that cooking with a gas stove will give your child asthma, there are attempts to ban natural gas for home heating, hot water tanks, electricity production and more. It’s all part of a well-funded, organized campaign to rid the world of all fossil fuels, even clean burning natural gas.

When researchers put out their report last week claiming that natural gas increased the likelihood of children contracting asthma, there were immediate calls for gas stoves to be banned. Richard Trumpka Jr., a U.S. Consumer Product Safety commissioner set off a firestorm stateside when he suggested banning the appliances was a possibility.

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He backed down after getting heat from the White House, which doesn’t want to touch the issue.

In Canada, CBC immediately found an academic calling for a ban on gas stoves. Meanwhile, a group called the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, a small group of activist doctors, tried to push the ban narrative themselves.

Why the hate on for natural gas?

The product is safe, affordable and produces far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than oil or coal, shouldn’t we want to use natural gas, at least until there is a safe, affordable and reliable alternative? That’s how most people think, but not environmental activists who have found religion and want you to as well.

To green zealots, all fossil fuels are bad — end of story.

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These environmental warriors are well funded, as anyone who watched the battle over Canada’s oil sands would know. They have a small fortune, often committed by wealthy American foundations, to carry out their campaigns.

Foundations like Tides, Ford, MacArthur and Rockefeller donate millions a year to anti-fossil fuel campaigns that now include targeting natural gas.

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At the most recent United Nations climate conference in Egypt, The Rockefeller Foundation teamed up with the Bezos Earth Fund, a $10-billion fund set up by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and the U.S. State Department, to start an energy transition fund that will among other things, put a stop to the use of natural gas.

The Bezos Earth Fund and Rockefeller Foundation are both major sponsors of the Rocky Mountain Institute, the organization which employs the two researchers who wrote the paper on the health hazards of gas stoves. The goal of the Rocky Mountain Institute is the radical transformation of the global energy supply.

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These ideas have been tried in Europe and now, having ditched nuclear and latched on to an unstable supply of natural gas from Russia, Germany is firing up coal plants again. Many parts of Europe would love to have the kind of stable energy supply we have in Canada.

The reality is that we have more than 7 million homes that are heated with natural gas in this country. We have an untold number of hot water heaters and stoves, and then there are the commercial uses.

A significant portion of the country’s electricity supply comes from natural gas, a flexible and reliable power source which supports the system.

Changing all of this, dropping natural gas is no easy task, nor would it be cheap. None of that matters to the well-funded crusaders, they want natural gas gone yesterday.

Already, dozens of municipalities have passed motions calling for an end to natural gas use and are developing plans. This kind of foolishness puts us in danger of what we are seeing with the energy crisis in Europe.

It’s time to start paying attention to the campaigns these green zealots are waging before it’s too late.

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Article content

The whole world wants Canada’s natural gas, except it seems, Canada. We’ve got Germany and Japan, along with a long list of other countries begging us to sell gas to them.

Advertisement 2

Article content

We not only want to keep it from them, there’s a growing movement to stop all use of natural gas.

Article content

It’s not just the spurious claim that cooking with a gas stove will give your child asthma, there are attempts to ban natural gas for home heating, hot water tanks, electricity production and more. It’s all part of a well-funded, organized campaign to rid the world of all fossil fuels, even clean burning natural gas.

When researchers put out their report last week claiming that natural gas increased the likelihood of children contracting asthma, there were immediate calls for gas stoves to be banned. Richard Trumpka Jr., a U.S. Consumer Product Safety commissioner set off a firestorm stateside when he suggested banning the appliances was a possibility.

Advertisement 3

Article content

He backed down after getting heat from the White House, which doesn’t want to touch the issue.

In Canada, CBC immediately found an academic calling for a ban on gas stoves. Meanwhile, a group called the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, a small group of activist doctors, tried to push the ban narrative themselves.

Why the hate on for natural gas?

The product is safe, affordable and produces far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than oil or coal, shouldn’t we want to use natural gas, at least until there is a safe, affordable and reliable alternative? That’s how most people think, but not environmental activists who have found religion and want you to as well.

To green zealots, all fossil fuels are bad — end of story.

Advertisement 4

Article content

These environmental warriors are well funded, as anyone who watched the battle over Canada’s oil sands would know. They have a small fortune, often committed by wealthy American foundations, to carry out their campaigns.

Foundations like Tides, Ford, MacArthur and Rockefeller donate millions a year to anti-fossil fuel campaigns that now include targeting natural gas.

Recommended video

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

At the most recent United Nations climate conference in Egypt, The Rockefeller Foundation teamed up with the Bezos Earth Fund, a $10-billion fund set up by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and the U.S. State Department, to start an energy transition fund that will among other things, put a stop to the use of natural gas.

The Bezos Earth Fund and Rockefeller Foundation are both major sponsors of the Rocky Mountain Institute, the organization which employs the two researchers who wrote the paper on the health hazards of gas stoves. The goal of the Rocky Mountain Institute is the radical transformation of the global energy supply.

Advertisement 5

Article content

These ideas have been tried in Europe and now, having ditched nuclear and latched on to an unstable supply of natural gas from Russia, Germany is firing up coal plants again. Many parts of Europe would love to have the kind of stable energy supply we have in Canada.

The reality is that we have more than 7 million homes that are heated with natural gas in this country. We have an untold number of hot water heaters and stoves, and then there are the commercial uses.

A significant portion of the country’s electricity supply comes from natural gas, a flexible and reliable power source which supports the system.

Changing all of this, dropping natural gas is no easy task, nor would it be cheap. None of that matters to the well-funded crusaders, they want natural gas gone yesterday.

Already, dozens of municipalities have passed motions calling for an end to natural gas use and are developing plans. This kind of foolishness puts us in danger of what we are seeing with the energy crisis in Europe.

It’s time to start paying attention to the campaigns these green zealots are waging before it’s too late.

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Comments

Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. We have enabled email notifications—you will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Visit our Community Guidelines for more information and details on how to adjust your email settings.

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