NDP MP wonders if indoor ice rinks are still needed given climate impact

"Need more indoor skating ice?" Tweeted by Bonita Zarrillo

NDP MP tweets Wednesday and Thursday she meditated It went viral when about whether we should still have an indoor ice rink.

Bonita Zarillo, her NDP MP from Port Moody, British Columbia, Coquitlam, tweeted on Tuesday. ?Can all ice sports be done without ice and various equipment?...just thinking about the impact of artificial indoor ice on the climate."

This tweet received a handful of retweets and likes, but hundreds of quoted tweets.

Zarrillo followed up with a link to a Inhabitat.com article on indoor ice her link alternatives.

Part of that sentence reads: However, amid growing concerns overglobal warming,water scarcityand the planet'sclimate crisis, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) ), ) and the National Hockey League (NHL) have considered the environmental issues associated with coordinating ice sporting events to ensure that the energy consumption and operating costs of the rink are feasible. As a result, there is now a move to utilize synthetic ice in ice rinks.

Zarrillo later tweeted: "Ice sports aren't just about hockey, but FYI, the NHL is also about environmental impact. We are considering it,” with a link to the Green Initiative by the NHL.

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