In my July 31 post, I said the Harper government could solve its Kyoto problems by doubling the Wind Power Production Incentive (WPPI) to 2,000 megawatts and extending it to other forms of clean power production, including nuclear. Why would…
Nuclear looms large in first U.S. carbon cap-and-trade scheme
My August 20 post talked about the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a coalition of seven northeastern U.S. States that has started the first cap-and-trade system for electricity generation–related greenhouse gases (GHGs). I said the RGGI had set an ambitious cap…
Cap and trade, Climate change, Electricity, Emission trading, Greenhouse gas emissions, Kyoto, Nuclear
Eastern Front flares up in U.S. Kyoto war; nuclear industry could be the big winner
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…
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.…