David Carkhuff/ Portland Daily Sun/ June 10, 2010

Climate change is a national security issue, according to two Maine military veterans who served in Iraq.

Andrew Campbell of Portland was part of a group of military veterans who toured the country promoting clean, sustainable energy as a matter of national security. During his deployment in 2004 and 2005, the six-year veteran of the Army National Guard served in Mosul, Iraq as a logistics specialist with Maine’s 133 Engineer Battalion.

“As a logistics specialist in what was essentially a construction unit, I was able to pay attention to the money we were spending to support these operations over the course of a year,” Campbell said Thursday during a Portland press conference hosted by 1Sky, a national coalition urging climate change legislation in Congress. “It took several million dollars to support the unit for one year, when it came to construction supplies, water, maintenance supplies, food, and a lot of that on oil.”

Campbell noted that the United States spends over $1 billion on oil every day.

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