First off: the made-in-Canada plan just shifts targets and baselines. Instead of reducing emissions to six percent below the 1990 level by 2012, Canada will reduce them to 45–50 percent below 2003 by 2050. Not as ambitious as the California plan; but, its few supporters say, it is more realistic. Of course, the targets...
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Harper’s made-in-Canada Kyoto plan and the Ottawa mayor’s race
I have been arguing in these posts that a fundamental shift away from fossil fuel use and toward low–emission intensity electricity should be an integral part of Canada’s emission reduction strategy. This is easily doable, especially in the transportation sector, where electric powered vehicles are truly the wave of the future. In fact, the...
Dalton could take the Terminator on the environment
A few weeks ago I mentioned that environmentalism is becoming the new mainstream. I cited California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as an example of this. He is a moderate Republican seeking re-election, and has obviously chosen the environment as one of his major campaign planks. Yesterday he buttressed that plank a little more by setting...
Liberals, Environment Canada bureaucrats brace for AG’s Kyoto blast
Any day now, the federal Auditor General’s environment commissioner will release the report of her inquiry into federal Kyoto programs. It won’t be a happy tale. Canada, she will report, has told its citizens and the rest of the world that it’s in the vanguard of the movement to halt the increase in greenhouse...
Federal support for Ontario nukes: making it work
There has been a lot of speculation in recent months about exactly how the U.S. Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005 will support new nuclear projects in that country. The EPAct introduced a series of measures—construction delay insurance, loan guarantees, and power production tax credits—designed to underpin a new wave of nuclear construction. As...
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