Over the past few weeks I have been offering (admittedly unsolicited) advice on how the Harper government can stickhandle through the tricky Kyoto issue. I have advised the prime minister to use Ontario’s recent nuclear announcement as an example of how Canada and its new Conservative government are surging forward on a file in...
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Power generation, air quality, and talking to Americans: how to truly lead by example
Ontario’s electricity debate has produced more than its share of wacky ideas. But none is more bizarre than the notion that closing the provincial coal-fired generating plants will compel the Americans to follow our example. American utilities generate over half of their electricity with coal. The sheer size of continental coal reserves means they...
“Made in Canada” Kyoto plan takes shape as Quebec initiative lays out political gains
Stephen Harper’s Kyoto dilemma (see my June 18 post) might be transforming into a glorious electoral opportunity, thanks to an initiative coming from the Prime Minister’s favourite province. Quebec Sustainable Development minister Claude Bechard told Broadcast News today he wants federal money to help curtail Quebec’s greenhouse gases (GHGs). This follows last week’s announcement...
Harper’s Kyoto dilemma: big city blues
We’re heading into what could be a long and hot summer. It might come with more of the climate-related craziness that accompanied last summer. Against this backdrop, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives are busy working on a new climate change plan for Canada. Reading the tea leaves, it is difficult to tell how they will proceed....
Ontario Liberals go nuclear, Greenpeace vows to go to the mattresses
The McGuinty government yesterday announced it would address the power supply problem by taking the only sensible course of action available to it: refurbishing laid-up reactors at the Bruce nuclear plant, and building two new reactors at an existing site, probably Darlington The Liberals thereby became the first North American government in decades to...
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