Former Saskatchewan MLA and minister Peter Prebble says a recent decision by the province's politicians amounts to climate change denial.
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This is an exceptionally unwise position to take, given that climate change is destroying millions of lives each year, and that burning coal is the single worst offender, accounting for 20 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.Article content Every other province in Canada has either stopped relying on coal-fired power or is working hard to comply with the federal regulations.
Ontario phased out coal-fired electricity generation by 2014. Alberta will shut down its last coal-fired power plant later this year. Nova Scotia is still coal-dependent, but its government has announced that coal will be gone from its grid by 2030. In a world that desperately needs to stop burning coal, Premier Scott Moe is setting a terrible example. He has failed to recognize that maintaining our quality of life in Saskatchewan very much depends on the global community summoning the political will to rapidly phase out coal and other greenhouse gas pollutants.
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