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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2014-01-15, Page 44 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, January 15, 2014 www.lucknowsentinel.com The Lucknow Sentinel VOLUME 138 - ISSUE 00 PUBLISHED WEEKLY P.O. Box 400, 619 Campbell Street Lucknow Ontario NOG 2H0 phone: 519-528-2822 fax: 519-528-3529 www.lucknowsentinel.com SUN MEDIA A Quebecor Media Company ra MARIE DAVID Publisher marie.david@sunmedia.ca JILLIAN UNDERWOOD Sales representative jillian.underwood@sunmedia.ca MARILYN MILTENBURG office administrator lucknowsentinel@sunmedia.ca Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO SENTINEL CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT RO. 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The Sentinel is available on microfilm at: GODERICH LIBRARY, (from 1875) 52 Montreal Street Goderich ON N7A 1M3 Goderichlibrary@huroncounty.ca KINCARDINE LIBRARY, (from 1875 to 1900 & 1935 to 1959) 727 Queen Street Kincardine ON N2Z 1Z9 We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities. Canada'. ,431cna Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and the Ontario Community Newspapers Association China is not green, Justin So there can be no misunder- standing, let's recall exactly what Justin Trudeau said when he was asked at a recent "Ladies' Night" Liberal fundraiser: "Which nation, besides Canada ... do you most admire and why?" Trudeau answered: "You know, there's a level of admiration I actu- ally have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime and say 'we need to go green fastest ... we need to start investing in solar:" This theme of China becoming the world's Jolly Green Giant is nothing new in the environmental movement, among those who pro- fess to call themselves green. Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Fried- man, for example, expressed simi- lar sentiments to Trudeau's in Sep- tember, 2009 when he wrote: "One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st cen- tury. It is not an accident that China is committed to overtaking us in electric cars, solar power, energy efficiency, batteries, nuclear power and wind power ... Beijing wants to make sure that it owns that industry and is ordering the policies to do that ... from the top down." If I had to guess where Trudeau's view of China comes from, I'd say it's at least partly from his principal advisor, Gerald Butts, former presi- dent and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund Canada. Prior to that, Butts was principal secretary to then premier Dalton McGuinty, which may explain much of McGuinty's enthusiasm for wind and solar power, the implementation of which has been a monumental financial and energy disaster in Ontario. One hopes that whoever con- vinced Trudeau that China is the Jolly Green Giant of green energy, will also call his attention to a Jan. 8 Reuters report, one of many on the same subject, noting "green" China's demand for coal, the dirti- est fossil fuel, is exploding. Last year alone, China approved the construction of 15 major new coal mines (smaller ones are run by local authorities and are not recorded by the central Chinese government). This is part of Beijing's plan to Column Lorrie Goldstein MI Agency increase China's coal production -- mainly used to generate elec- tricity -- by 860 million tonnes by 2015, which, as Reuters notes, is "more than the entire annual out- put of India." At the end of 2012, China was already producing about half of the world's coal -- 3.66 billion tonnes -- compared to a little over one billion tonnes each for Europe and the U.S. The irony, then, is that China's "basic dictatorship" is powering its expansion into renewable energy -- which Trudeau so admires -- by using coal to generate electricity, which emits the the most pollution and greenhouse gases of any fossil fuel. That's why Chinese cities are so often enveloped in heavy smog, which the people living there can see -- meaning they can't see more than a few feet in front of them -- even if Trudeau, from his lofty perch in Canada, cannot. The problem with naive observa- tions like Trudeau's about China's alleged greenness, is that we see them repeatedly parroted by envi- ronmental radicals. Their real agenda is to under- mine the development of Canada's oilsands -- an insignificant con- tributor to global greenhouse gas emissions -- along with any pipe- lines needed to move oil to ports in B.C., the Maritimes, and the Gulf Coast. Meanwhile, we hear nary a word from them about the explosive resurgence of coal to produce elec- tricity in Germany, another so- called Jolly Green Giant, along with China. German coal emissions are sky- rocketing after its politicians swore off nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster and dis- covered, to their horror, that their mad dash into green energy hasn't given them the affordable, reliable electricity needed to power a mod- ern industrialized economy. (Sound familiar, Ontario?) Meanwhile, they also give a free pass to U.S. President Barack Obama, who has the gall to lecture Canada about the Keystone XL pipeline, while boasting to American audiences that his administration "has added enough new oil and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth, and then some" while raising U.S. coal exports to record levels. Somebody ought to tell Trudeau what's been going on in the real world when it comes to energy production. Because if, as he claims, he supports the oilsands and the Keystone XL, he's been doing a lousy job of it up to now. Huron Health Unit 'driven' to help people quit smoking Quitting smoking is one of the most popular New Year's res- olutions and Huron County Health Unit is using the opportu- nity, and prizes, to help people on their way. For younger adults, the Leave the Pack Behind's woul- durather... contest features two grand prizes of $2,500. And for the first time, the annual contest is offering eight weeks of free nicotine patches or gum to all eligible participants. The contest is open to all students and young adults between the ages of 18 and 29. Register by Jan. 26 at www.wouldurather.ca. If winning a car is an incentive to quit smoking, adults can sign up for the Canadian Cancer Society's Driven to Quit chal- lenge. The contest is for any smoker over the age of 19 in Ontario who has used tobacco at least once weekly for at least 10 months in 2013, and who has used tobacco at least 100 times in their life. The grand prize is a Dodge Journey or Dodge Avenger. Register by Feb. 28 at www.driventoquit.ca. "It's hard to quit the addictive nature of nicotine," said Public Health Nurse Julie Verch. "If you've decided to take the step of quitting these contests are a great additional motivation:' Tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in Ontario, killing 13,000 people annually or 36 people a day. Many smokers make five to seven attempts to quit smoking before they quit successfully and accessing quit smolcing supports and programs can help increase a smoker's chance of becoming tobacco -free. For more information on local quit smoking supports and services available, please contact the Huron County Health Unit @ 519-482-3416 or toll free 1-877-837-6143.