The Left’s ‘green’ policies may actually lead to more pollution, Colorado Senate candidate says

The Left’s restrictions on oil and fuel manufacturing within the U.S., coupled with the promotion of “inexperienced” applied sciences like wind and photo voltaic, may very well result in extra air pollution and worse carbon emissions globally in the long term, a U.S. Senate candidate who spent ten years working with the primary licensed carbon-neutral firm in America informed Fox Information Digital in an interview this week.

“On the yardstick of greenhouse fuel emissions, environmental insurance policies fail,” Eli Bremer, a former Olympian and Republican candidate for Senate in Colorado, informed Fox Information Digital. He argued that “inexperienced” applied sciences might price extra to fabricate and keep than they offset, when it comes to carbon emissions, and he argued that by refusing to supply power within the U.S., America is successfully offshoring power manufacturing to nations with far decrease environmental requirements.

Bremer created and led the Shaklee Company’s Olympic athlete sponsorship arm Pure Efficiency from 2011 to 2021. Shaklee Company turned America’s first licensed carbon-neutral firm in 2000. 

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Bremer informed Fox Information Digital that he advocates for transparency relating to “inexperienced” applied sciences. “Any authorities program that’s supposedly inexperienced we must always discover out, from head to toe, does that coverage truly scale back greenhouse fuel emissions or not?”

“Should you take a look at windmills, there’s plenty of greenhouse fuel emission price that we gloss over,” the candidate famous. “We extract the uncooked supplies from the bottom, course of them, assemble them, keep them for the lifespan of the windmill, then we decommission them. Nearly each professional that I’ve talked to believes that the general return is unfavourable.”

The true general price stays unknown, Bremer claimed. If elected, he goals to vary that.

Moreover that, the Left’s environmental insurance policies additionally create a perverse type of “inexperienced colonialism,” the previous Olympian claimed.

He recalled journeys to China and Cambodia, saying he noticed air pollution firsthand.

“Once we push our manufacturing to third-world nations, they pollute their lands,” Bremer stated. “We’re going to third-world nations and demanding that they pillage their lands in order that we are able to have inexperienced applied sciences.” He talked about “lithium mines the place you’ve gotten younger children put in servitude” as within the Congo.

Nov. 25, 2015: A cobalt mine pit in Tulwizembe, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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He recalled talking with a county commissioner in Colorado, who stated U.S. employees mine the coal, then they ship it to China, the place it will get burned “in a a lot much less environmentally-friendly method.” 

He recalled a visit to Cambodia throughout which he determined to take a ship trip, anticipating a scenic view. As an alternative, “it was disgusting.”

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“They dump their trash within the river there, after which it goes out to the ocean,” Bremer recalled. “The Left is speaking about not having plastic straws, however they’re pushing manufacturing in others nations that do not have a waste administration system.”  

“The worldwide air pollution goes up when the U.S. artificially caps our manufacturing,” the previous Olympian argued. “We’ve got gone up to now over at this level that we’re truly polluting the earth due to these insurance policies.”

Former Olympic athlete and U.S. Air Pressure veteran Eli Bremer on Tuesday launched a Republican Senate marketing campaign in Colorado, aiming to problem Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet within the 2022 midterm elections.
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“Once we’re one of the crucial environment friendly energy-producing nations on the planet, decreasing our manufacturing is nonsensical,” Bremer argued. “A sound environmental coverage would additionally deal with international air pollution,” and Republican proposals achieve this higher than Democratic ones.

He stated that the easiest way to deal with the specter of local weather change is thru American power innovation. “The quickest strategy to get to applied sciences in a inexperienced economic system is to permit economies just like the U.S. to supply rapidly and develop new applied sciences,” he stated. “We’re not going to get new applied sciences out of China or India or Bangladesh.” 

He additionally famous that People need extra environmentally-friendly power sources. “We are able to provide you with a greener society a lot sooner as People than the federal government can mandate it. Our economic system will naturally do this sooner and extra effectively.”

“Republicans needs to be keen to speak about it and say, ‘Our options put People again to work. Our options, globally, produce fewer greenhouse fuel emissions.’”

Bremer additionally famous that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has confirmed the significance of power independence.

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“Ukraine has confirmed that we as People have been unwilling to face the truth that nation state conflicts have been going to matter and that it’s incumbent on a rustic to handle your personal individuals and to have all the assets that you just’re able to producing inside your personal borders, together with power, meals, medication, and semiconductors,” he stated, emphasizing that the semiconductor difficulty ties the U.S. to Taiwan.

“Nation-state warfare is coming, it’s actual, and we’d higher put together for it, militarily and economically,” he warned. “Something that’s essential to your economic system, you’ll want to make sure that you’ve gotten.” He additionally famous that the COVID-19 pandemic “ought to have proven us that having PPE abroad is a nasty coverage and power coverage is the very same.”

Consultants backed up a few of Bremer’s claims.

“Any dialogue of power sources and environmental/local weather footprints wants to begin from the indeniable level that the US is round 10% of worldwide emissions and declining as a proportion of worldwide emissions,” Steve Milloy, a former Trump-Pence EPA transition member and founding father of JunkScience.com, informed Fox Information Digital. “The purpose being that the US might go darkish right now and stay so endlessly and 90+% of emissions would nonetheless happen.”

Steve Milloy
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“Wind and photo voltaic require strip mining for uncommon earth minerals in locations (e.g., China, Congo) largely with out environmental and labor rules,” Milloy added. “Utility-scale wind and photo voltaic require larges areas destroying the pure panorama. Installations completely harm the surroundings – every wind turbine might contain a cement and rebar basis of a whole bunch of cubic yards. Bear in mind fossil fuels are required to supply the concrete and rebar.”

Milloy argued that “notions of ‘inexperienced’ and ‘clear’ power are wrong-headed” as a result of “wind and photo voltaic are all the time dearer and fewer dependable with out offering any apparent compensating upside or advantages. In addition they have environmental impacts, some apparent (they’re eyesores), and a few not so (soiled manufacturing processes occurring out of sight in overseas nations and wanted underground foundations).”

Katie Tubb, senior coverage analyst for power and environmental points on the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Financial Coverage Research on the Heritage Basis, informed Fox Information Digital that “there isn’t any excellent power resolution on the market proper now – all of them contain tradeoffs, execs, and cons.”

For that reason, Tubb argued, “it is counterproductive for policymakers to get in between power producers and power shoppers by inserting their very own political mandates and subsidies. Vitality coverage ought to permit all power assets and applied sciences to compete on their very own deserves.”

She referenced the U.S. Vitality Data Administration, which tasks “no situation by which international demand for oil and pure fuel don’t improve via at the least 2050.” Because the demand for these assets is “not going away,” Tubb argued that “if the US curtails its personal manufacturing then it should seemingly discover itself in the same state of affairs as Europe right now.”

Tubb additionally agreed with Bremer that wind and photo voltaic applied sciences “devour much more land to supply the identical quantity of power, usually are not ‘power dense,’ are depending on climate, have shorter working lifespans, require plenty of infrastructure to attach them to clients, and have to be correctly disposed of. They require heavy business (which requires fossil fuels) and demanding minerals to be manufactured, which have to be mined – sadly, the Biden administration has hamstrung home mining in a wide range of rules and land administration selections.”

Neither the League of Conservation Voters nor the Sierra Membership responded to Fox Information Digital’s requests for touch upon Bremer’s claims.