One of
the climate change rallies across the county was staged outside the
office of Saint John M-P Rodney Weston on King Street.
One of
the protestors was Christian Tschirhart of the North-South Institute in
Ottawa. Surprisingly, he's not against construction of the Energy East
pipeline provided the project which includes a green energy industrial
park which Tschirhart predicts will last longer than the pipeline with
unlimited solar and wind power.
He warns the oil sands and shale gas are putting our water resources in jeopardy.
At the
present time, global subsidies for fossil fuels are five times higher
than for renewable forms of energy, according to former Irish President
Mary Robinson who now heads a climate change foundation.