International Energy Agency Deputy Executive Director: Environmentalists ‘smoking dope’

Environmentalists ‘smoking dope’: Energy agency director

OTTAWA - Environmentalists who believe a massive global investment in renewable energy is the answer to future demands are “smoking dope,” International Energy Agency Deputy Executive Director Richard Jones said on Wednesday.

He was responding to Greenpeace Canada accusations that the IEA was taking an “intellectually and morally inconsistent” stand by supporting pipelines and the oilsands sector while scolding world leaders about climate change inaction.

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Jones said there’s no realistic way renewable energy sources can expand so dramatically by 2035.

“We think the people who just say, ‘you can wave a magic wand and replace all of these other technologies with renewables’ are smoking dope.”