A couple of Canadian newspapers are on the prime minister for being coy about the prospects of Canada joining the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP). They’re trying to pin him down on how Canada will deal with radioactive waste, i.e., whether we would import it or not. Harper is too smart to answer right...
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The Asia-Pacific Partnership and GNEP, versus Kyoto and the NPT
I mentioned on May 24 that climate change and nuclear weapons proliferation are the two biggest dangers facing humanity. The Kyoto Treaty addresses climate change, but several of the biggest emitting countries, including the U.S., have refused to sign it. This, together with the fact that some of Kyoto’s strongest adherents cannot establish economy-friendly...
How Canada can punch above its weight in energy
Canada has been called an energy superpower, largely because of the massive petroleum reserves entrained in the Alberta oil sands. But this country is also a major player in the international nuclear industry. Canada is the world’s largest uranium producing country, and a Canadian company, Cameco (formerly the government-owned Eldorado Nuclear), is the world’s...
How to verify international carbon reductions: GNEP, CDM, and other acronyms
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the gaping holes in the international carbon market, and in the European scheme that has spurred it, the EU ETS. Financial writers are, rightly, pointing out that it’s difficult to verify that, say, an airline selling carbon permits isn’t selling the same tonne of carbon to...
America, climate change, and the world: misplaced rancor over Bush’s refusal to play in the Kyoto sandbox
Germany’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have gone up over the past few years, in spite of its full support of the Kyoto Treaty and participation in the European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). It demands that America, the world’s largest consumer of fossil fuels and largest emitter of GHGs, join Kyoto. And yet Germany opposes...
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