Re: 鈥淟NG gain means long-term pain,鈥� letter May 26.
The letter-writer indicating short-term gain versus long-term pain by promoting the use and export of LNG fails to recognize there will be a long transition period before we move to a fossil-fuel-free environment.
It was suggested by an American academic and environmental activist that the quickest road to decreasing greenhouse gas emissions would be to eliminate the use of coal and replace it by LNG. This is exactly what the United Kingdom has done, achieving a 28 per cent reduction in green-house gases. Other nations have not done so and in some cases are increasing the use of coal.
A reliable, secure, and plentiful supply of LNG could counter this.
Incidentally, the British government has been significant in using renewables to generate electricity, but after considerable time and investment, wind, solar, tidal and wave action produced less than 10 per cent of its electricity in 2018.
Also. one should note, that Canada cannot export electricity overseas as a resource funding our economy as LNG will. And once crude oil no is longer used as fuel, it will continue to supply industry with source material in the manufacture of goods, including batteries. Hence the pipeline.
David A. Clark
Victoria
