Tag: Conservative environmental policy

Andrew Scheer says that his environmental policy is a work in progress. But it really is hard to know what his party is thinking. It changes gears frequently. Rick Smith writes: Trying to follow the Conservative stance on climate change can give you whiplash. After all, this is a party

                                                       http://www.wired.com/ Yesterday, the provincial premiers met in Quebec City to map out a strategy to combat climate change. The federal government was invited to the conference but declined the invitation: Tuesday’s meeting ended with renewed calls for the federal government to show greater initiative in

                                  http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/ There are some who believe that the deal which the United States and China reached on greenhouse gas emissions will force Stephen Harper to act on climate change. But Jeffrey Simpson warns that such optimism is misplaced. To begin with, the Republican dominated congress will

Yesterday, Barack Obama announced that the United States is moving to restrict the emissions of its greatest polluter, the coal industry. The objective is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal by 30% in the next sixteen years. Stephen Harper responded by saying that Canada already restricts emissions from coal.

The irony is of epic proportions. The Jewish National Fund plans to put Stephen Harper’s name on  a bird sanctuary. It shall be called The Stephen J. Harper Hula Valley Bird Sanctuary Visitor and Education Centre. Michael Harris writes that naming a bird sanctuary after Stephen Harper is like naming

In a recent article, Noam Chomsky asks the question we should all be asking: “Who will defend the earth?” The people who are desperately interested in the answer to that question are people we have traditionally thought of as “backward.” But, Chomsky writes, they understand what is at stake: That

If you wondered why the Harper government has gutted Canada’s environmental legislation, Frances Russell  provides the answer: The North American Free Trade Agreement was the first of a New World Order of trade agreements designed, to borrow the words of the Trilateral Commission in 1975, to repeal “an excess of

The devastation which Hurricane Sandy visited on the American east coast has generated a lot of attention. So did Hurricane Katrina. But neither storm appears to have spurred legislators into action. And, in Canada, inaction is the name of the game. Ma…

What do the Northern Gateway Project and the NEP have in common? I think everybody in Canada has heard of the NEP. In essence, Pierre Trudeau dreamed up a scheme which suppressed crude oil prices paid to producers in Alberta, in order to subsidise energy costs to central Canada. It

I am not very happy with Environment Canada in general, and Peter Kent in particular. I read this article this morning, and discovered that the Conservative Government has decided that they do not need to maintain expertise on toxic emmissions from smokestacks. In order to economise, they intend to eliminate