Archive for category Environment
Ban criticizes Canada on climate. UN chief urges Harper to comply with Kyoto Protocol targets.
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Environment, Foreign Policy on May 13, 2010
By JULIET O’NEILL, Canwest News Service, as published in The Montreal Gazette, May 13, 2010
The United Nations chief chided the Canadian government for its climate change policy yesterday, urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to contribute new funds to help developing countries improve their environments. Read on »
Stephen Harper and his anti-green agenda
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Environment on April 27, 2010
BY SUSAN RILEY, VICTORIA TIMES COLONIST, APRIL 25, 2010
What if the Harper government’s approach to the environment — rolling back previous safeguards, endlessly delaying regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, failing even to make serious efforts at conservation — doesn’t simply reflect indifference, neglect or a single-minded attempt to shelter the lucrative and polluting tarsands? Read on »
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 »
Canadian climate scientists fight for renewed research funding
Posted by sitemaster in Conservatives, Environment, Research & Development, Science & Technology on February 23, 2010
BY MARGARET MUNRO, CANWEST NEWS SERVICE, from The Vancouver Sun, FEBRUARY 23, 2010
The Harper government is under mounting pressure to save an endangered climate program in next week’s budget.
A petition, signed by close to 1,400 graduate students and researchers, is demanding new funding for the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, which will die without a cash infusion. 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 »
Liberals are working on a serious climate change plan for Canada
Posted by sitemaster in Environment, The Economy on February 4, 2010
February 4, 2010
Liberals are continuing their work on Parliament Hill today at a climate change forum that aims to fill the void left by the Harper Conservatives in the lead-up to the G8 and G20 meetings Canada is hosting.
“We’re calling for climate change to be on the agenda for this summer’s G8 and G20 meetings in Toronto and Huntsville,” said Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff. “The environment will be the elephant in the room — and Canada should be leading the discussion, not hiding from it.” 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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