Last week I outlined how the Arnold Schwarzenegger–Tony Blair pact spelled bad news to those who oppose the Kyoto Treaty. The Terminator’s alliance with Blair represents the first major beachhead won by pro-Kyoto forces in America. But now the anti-Kyotos…
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Kyoto forces win major beachhead in Fortress America—Harper’s Kyoto dilemma, part III
Kyoto skeptics got some bad news last week. After months of slugging it out with Al Gore and his supporters over the size and nature of the scientific consensus on global warming, they found out they now have a more…
How to fund Kyoto programs without hurting Alberta
I recently spoke with a New Brunswick energy official about the possibility of the Harper Conservatives revisiting the Pt. Lepreau funding issue. (You will recall last summer’s announcement by then–New Brunswick minister Andy Scott that the federal Liberals would not…
Harper’s Kyoto dilemma, part II
Carbon taxes, emissions trading, outright fines… these are the most prominent suggestions for reducing Canada’s greenhouse gases (GHGs). It is significant that the prominent people advancing them—Stéphane Dion, Michael Ignatieff, Bob Rae—happen to be Liberal leadership hopefuls, out of government.…
Natural gas lobby launches new PR campaign to gasify Nanticoke
It looks like Jack Gibbons, the never-say-die head of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, is back trying to land the juicy Nanticoke gas contract for his clients in the natural gas industry. The July 21st Toronto Star wrote up the…