Canadian mayor socks it to Gore and enviro-trash
For a liberal-dominated country Canada has quite a few outspoken public officials and decent periodicals. Here's a Canadian mayor Andy Wells on enviro-trash:
Andy Wells, the outspoken Mayor of St. John's, has outraged Canadian environmentalists and physicians with his comments that David Suzuki and Al Gore are "junk scientists," and that herbicides in small amounts are safe.
From St. John's, to Ottawa, Calgary and Burnaby, B.C., communities across the country continue to debate cosmetic pesticide and herbicide use and whether it should be allowed.
But while passions often come to the fore in the arguments over whether the chemical treatments for lawn care are safe, it's unlikely that many have stated the case as bluntly as does Mr. Wells.
"I think there's a lot of junk science out there that's masquerading as true science,'' the Mayor told CanWest News Service yesterday, "and I think as a consequence public agencies and organizations such as municipal councils are making stupid decisions."
During a council debate on the subject in St. John's Monday night, the feisty mayor tore into another councillor, calling him a junk scientist like "Al Gore and David Suzuki."
Mr. Wells repeated the assertion Tuesday. "I always thought David Suzuki was a charlatan,'' he said. Mr. Wells added: "I think this Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, from what I've read, contains a lot of very poor science.
"I'm not an expert, far from it, but I know how to read."
I have never met Mr Wells, but he can come for dinner at my house whenever he likes (he'd be welcome to see my enormous carbon dioxide emission footprint collection). For the full article in the excellent National Post go here.
Peter C Glover
in Government & politics
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