WASHINGTON — Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday unveiled draft climate change legislation to slash America's greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020, setting the stage for a protracted and intense political debate in Washington that has potentially major consequences for Canada's energy industry.
Hey, us friendly Albertans can help with that 20% thingy you Democrats are worried about, we stop the oil...presto magic, 20% reduction by 2009, 11 years early! We will even throw in the 1606 dead bodies of ducks, the only casualties from 20 years of oil sands production. Cap and trade those potentially major consequences for the US.
But our own home grown eco-friendly pals, think Obama is on the right track.
Matthew Bramley, director of the climate change program at the Alberta-based Pembina Institute, praised the U.S. draft legislation.
The low-carbon fuel standard "reinforces the message that business-as-usual levels of pollution from Alberta's oilsands cannot continue," Bramley said.
Speaking of business-as-usual Bramley buddy, just what is the Pembina Institute up to these days? You wouldn't be so craven and unprincipled as selling your souls to companies to make a buck now would you? Say it isn't so! You have gone over to the side of the nasty capitalists haven't you?
Pembina Corporate Consulting Services is the consulting arm of the Pembina Institute [external link]. We provide solutions for select industry leaders in Canada seeking to make their businesses more sustainable and climate-friendlyLeaves.
Pembina Corporate Consulting also provides advice and support to government, communities, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on initiatives that result in sustainable energy production and consumption.
Our unique positioning stems from a combination of technical expertise, policy analysis, a grounded understanding of environmental trends, and an understanding of different stakeholder interests. We strive to act as a bridge between a diverse set of stakeholders through identifying
common solutions.
Have you told your eco-buddies that you are taking money from capitalists? That you support carbon sequestration technology? How two faced can you be, slagging Alberta oil sands in one breath, and taking money from Alberta taxpayers in the next. That is not going to sit very well with your fellow earth travelers, or has that been the plan all along? Making money.
I guess you and your team of MBA's and engineers have to make money somehow, pay off those university loans, and buy those fancy cars.
You're just going to clean up all that pollution now aren't you? Yes, you can! HA.
What a scam, look at the program they sell. It's special, and I imagine very costly.
I took that stuff in university too, maybe I should start a eco-company so I can grab some of that 3 BILLION that is going to go into carbon capture. Try going out this summer and planting a few trees, that will capture carbon, and it sure as heck won't cost 3 billion taxpayer dollars.
I am sick and tired of the eco-nuts yapping about CO2 as pollution and how we should turn off our lights for an hour. Meanwhile they are making BIG bucks off of those capitalists they supposedly hate by selling them garbage that a first year organizational behaviour student could do as a term paper.
Why do corporations give in to these supposed environmentalists? Because it's a small price to pay to appear like they are doing something for the environment. Meanwhile our health care system is falling down around us. That 3 billion could go a long way to helping people who are really sick, and eco-nut does not qualify!
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Great April fools post!
Excellent SQ. Just excellent.
Yeah, the fool's are the ones who believe that environmentalists are all about the environment and not about stuffing their pockets with taxpayers money!
To reduce co2 how about a mandatory law that all envirwackos must stop breathing for 10 continuous minutes every hour. If that doesn't do it, increase time to 20 minutes/hour.
"We will even throw in the 1606 dead bodies of ducks, the only casualties from 20 years ..."
Come on, this is satire, right?
MaryT, once again your sense of humour is alive and well! Thanks for the chuckle.
Southern Qc, perhaps you should start a movement to ban cars - you know, on account of all the little and not so little roadkill, and all those insects hitting one's windshield and all.
BTW, there's concern here in Qc because our Hydro, a provider of "cleaner" energy, has decided to raise rates.
From a Gazette report:
«Quebec's hydro rates to rise
March 6, 2009
Quebec’s Régie de l’énergie has authorized a 1.2-per-cent increase in Hydro-Québec’s electricity rates effective April 1.
The utility had been seeking the right to hike rates by 2.2 per cent, the energy board said in a statement.
The increase should amount to an average of $1.24 a month per residential client, the Régie said.
The consumer group Option consommateur immediately criticized the rate increase – the seventh such hike in the last six years – calling it unreasonable and ill-timed given the current economic climate.
The group is also calling on the Quebec government to introduce a new energy rebate program for lower-income households, stating that families who live below the poverty line already spend an average of 7.5 per cent of their monthly budget on electricity.
“Electricity is a basic need and must remain affordable for all residential consumers,” Option consommateur energy analyst Olivier Bourgeois said in a statement.»
We Quebecers are SO pro environment that we balk at the thought of paying less than $15 extra per year to save the planet. Yep, we Quebecers are the most environMENTALly-conscious people in Canada.
If only we THINK it, it will be done - STP. No, not the fuel additive. Saving The Planet. Right?
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