Archive for category Energy
Oil sands deal gives China crucial veto on exports
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Energy, Environment, Jobs, The Economy on April 15, 2010
Shawn McCarthy and Gordon Pitts, Globe and Mail, Apr. 13, 2010
Sinopec’s $4.6-billion deal to acquire a minority stake in the Syncrude oil-sands plant would give the Chinese state-controlled company a veto over the crucial decision of whether the company should upgrade more oil in Alberta or export raw bitumen for processing. Read on »
Climate change: Liberals take action where Harper has failed
Posted by sitemaster in Energy, Environment, Jobs, Liberals, Science & Technology on April 13, 2010
For Immediate Release
April 13, 2010
OTTAWA – The Liberals are bringing forward an opposition motion calling on the Conservative government to take immediate and decisive action on the environment and climate change. Read on »
Tories suspend ecoEnergy Retrofit program
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Energy, Environment on April 1, 2010
A green sleight of hand
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Energy, Environment on March 15, 2010
Toronto Star Editorial. March 14, 2010
Canadians do not want to see important infrastructure projects held up by pointlessly long environmental assessments that can be used by opponents to hijack good plans.
But nor do they want to see projects that are potentially damaging to the environment given cursory, rubber stamp approvals. And that is what makes Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s changes to the nation’s environmental assessment process, outlined in this month’s throne speech and budget, so troubling. Read on »
Tory budget ‘walks away’ from renewable energy, environmentalist says
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Energy, Environment, Jobs, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 13, 2010
Gloria Galloway, Ottawa — From The Globe and Mail, Mar. 10, 2010
The new federal budget is titled “Leading the Way on Jobs and Growth,” but environmentalists say it fails badly when it comes to creating new employment in fields that deliver energy from renewable sources like sun, wind and water.
Even before the new fiscal plan was released last week, the U.S. federal government was outspending Ottawa by a per-capita ratio of 14 to 1 on the technologies that many believe will be the energy sources of future generations. Read on »
Federal green strategy goes from bad to worse
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health Care, Research & Development, Science & Technology on March 9, 2010
By Tyler Hamilton, Energy and Technology Columnist, The Toronto Star, March 8, 2010
Thud.
You hear that sound? That’s the sound of nearly half a billion taxpayer dollars landing on the doorstep of Atomic Energy Canada Ltd. Read on »
Ignatieff outlines Liberal priorities in open letter to Harper
Posted by sitemaster in Aboriginals, Accountability, Canadian Armed Forces, Crime & Safety, Democracy, Employment, Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Pensions, The Economy on February 17, 2010
Please click here to read Michael Ignatieff’s open letter to Stephen Harper, dated February 15, 2010.
Where have all the policy-makers gone?
Posted by sitemaster in Energy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Science & Technology, The Economy on February 17, 2010
David Mitchell, The Globe and Mail, Published on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010
Think hard: What were the policy and governance highlights of the past decade? It’s a short list. Our federal government avoided the military intervention in Iraq, joined the war effort in Afghanistan and, largely in reaction to the sponsorship scandal in Quebec, was preoccupied by the internal processes of accountability.
In fact, pro-active policy-making within government has atrophied. Read on »
Canada looks to China to exploit oil sands rejected by US
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Energy, Environment on February 14, 2010
By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent, guardian.co.uk, February 14, 2010
Canada, faced with growing political pressure over the extraction of oil from its highly polluting tar sands, has begun courting China and other Asian countries to exploit the resource. Read on »
Conservatives squander Canada’s nuclear leadership
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Energy, Environment on December 17, 2009
Despite investing millions of taxpayers’ dollars to develop world-leading nuclear technology, the Conservative government is putting the CANDU reactor division up for sale before returns have been realized, Liberal Natural Resources Critic Geoff Regan said today.
“Canada has 60 years of leadership in this field, but the Harper government is hollowing out our nuclear industry by selling it at fire-sale prices, likely at a loss for the Canadian people,” said Mr. Regan. “By abandoning nuclear power, nuclear isotopes and any future nuclear research reactor, Stephen Harper is abandoning decades of Canadian leadership and intellectual property. This plan is the death knell for Canada’s nuclear science sector.” Read on »
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