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by Mike Caswell

Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, says the modern environmental movement has it all wrong. Humans are not solely responsible for climate change, fish farms cause little harm and nuclear power is good. Mr. Moore, who left Greenpeace in 1986 after political activists overpowered scientific reason, says that the organization is "fundamentally incorrect on position after position."

Mr. Moore made the statements at a well-attended Fraser Institute luncheon in downtown Vancouver on Friday. Speaking to a crowd that included civic and federal politicians, he explained that he has devoted himself to finding sensible solutions to environmental problems. He sees this as more productive that the confrontational style the environmental movement uses.

More dams, more logging

Electricity is one of the issues on which the environmental movement causes more problems than it solves, he says. His top priority for power generation is to see more hydro electric dams. They emit nothing into the atmosphere, they consume no fossil fuels and they are a cheap way to generate massive amounts of electricity. The environmental movement opposes dams because of the damage they cause to ecosystems when a valley is flooded to create a reservoir for the dam.

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