Electric vehicles not a panacea for climate change: Steven Guilbeault
Electric vehicles not a panacea for climate change: Steven Guilbeault
Story by Michelle Lalonde, Montreal Gazette • 1d
Electric cars are among the many necessary solutions to Canada’s environment problems, but they are far from a panacea, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault told a conference on public transit in Montreal on Monday.
“We must stop thinking that electric cars will solve all our problems,” said Guilbeault, who was the keynote speaker at a fundraising luncheon at the Westin Montreal via live video feed from Ottawa. The event was organized by the public transit advocacy group Trajectoire Québec, and brought together about 250 key players in the fields of public transportation, municipal politics, energy and environment.
Guilbeault said over-estimating the ability of electricity-powered transportation to solve climate change and other environmental crises would be “an error, a false utopia that will let us down over the long term.”
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