Filed under: canada, climatechange, conservatives, energyefficiency, globalwarming, greenhousegas, politics, tories
I have been a littl busy the past while here but there have been some great stories about our blue friends over on the hill lately.
First up is a lovely piece from the Ottawa Citizen about how the Tories are not going to tax industry for their carbon emissions. There’s a shocker! Here I thought that all these closed door meetings with the oil patch would have resulted in something positive for the environment – guess I was wrong naive old me. Anyhow, the article goes on to say that the Tories are still rejecting Kyoto and Baird (the “new” Enviro Minister) could not even tell the a committee how much the Tories have spent on climate change! The best that Baird could muster was a quip about “phantom programs” referring to the Liberal approach to fighting climate change – which I will again point out that the Tories have implemented those exact same programs. Baird also mentioned the Canada only carbon trading market that companies will be able to take part in and in the same breath contradicted former Enviro Minister Ambrose saying that the international carbon trading market under Kyoto was a waste of money – I sure am glad that Baird has figured out how to implement carbon trading in Canada so cost effectively… maybe he could share that with the UN?
Oh and did you hear the one about how Baird completely twisted the words (lying might be a good word for it too) of eco-warrior Al Gore?
Those Tories sure are wholesome aren’t they? Any ready to take on their own Two Tonne Challenge?
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[...] Links Emissions Intensity Monday May 28th 2007, 4:37 am Filed under: globalwarming, emissionsintensity, climatechange, co2, conservatives, politics For those that have not heard, the approach that Canada’s “New Government” is depending on to curb greenhouse gas emissions is to try to improve Canada’s emissions intensity. There has been a lot of discussion about this point and many are up in arms – and rightly so! Decreasing the intensity of our emissions means that for a given gross domestic product (GDP) per capita our emissions should decrease. Conversely, and more importantly, it means that for a given level of CO2 emissions our GDP should increase… that means is that overall emissions could increase as long as our GDP increase equivalently! This is another great example of the the conservatives adopting lame duck Grit policies. [...]
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