Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/01/2009 7:38:11 AM PST by reaganaut1
A report by two environmental groups and financed by Toronto-Dominion Bank finds that Canada can meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets only by limiting economic growth in the oil-rich provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The report, from the Pembina Institute and the David Suzuki Foundation, broadly concludes that Canada can lower greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent compared with 1990 levels by 2020 while maintaining a “strong, growing economy, a quality of life higher than Canadians enjoy today, and continued steady job creation across the country.”
But the study, which relies on an economic model from M.K. Jaccard and Associates, also says the impact on growth will not be even throughout the country.
“The urgent need to address the enormous G.H.G. emissions from the coal-fired electricity and petroleum sectors in Alberta and Saskatchewan accounts for reductions in the projected rates of growth in these provinces,” the report said.
Under this analysis, Canada’s overall economy will grow at an annual average rate of 2.2 percent between next year and 2020 if greenhouse gas reduction measures are in place.
Without any changes, the report found, the economy would grow an additional 1.5 percent over the period, although by 2020 greenhouse gas emissions will be 47 percent above their 1990 levels.
But the report forecasts that Alberta’s growth will be 8.5 percent less than it would be if emissions continue unchecked. Saskatchewan, which is a much smaller energy producer, could see a 2.8 percent drop.
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Jim Prentice, the federal environment minister, said in an interview with The Globe and Mail that the report’s conclusions were “irresponsible.”
He added that “the kind of economic consequences you see in this report are not necessary if this is done in an orderly way.”
(Excerpt) Read more at greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com ...
global warming ping
Canaduh needs to get rid of Ontario and Quebec.
LOL, I think the winter weather will slow the economic developemt with out intervention. Nice place to visite and all of that.http://roadinfo.telenium.ca/shwyw.html
Yeah...right....the elitists who live off the energy and food produced in Alberta and Saskatchewan better watch out....I don’t think those 2 provinces will take kindly to being told they cannot grow...heck, they are the two provinces keeping Canada alive!
Unfortunately, in the classrooms throughout the county,( as well as throughout the western world), students are taught the death of their country is for a noble cause. However, the occupiers of the new world will NOT give a damn about he welfare of the world, just their pocket.
as a former canuck, I know firsthand that Albertans have a bigger hatred for Ottawa than Texas has for DC. They know they have the oil, Ottawa-Quebec wants to grab it and they wont let em’. There’s a reason why conservatives and separatists are concentrated in that province.
The liberal provinces fare fine, but the conservative provinces get screwed.
They want to end prosperity and they are getting more and more blatant about it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Those who produce the raw materials get the shaft from those who use them. But then, for all their babble about the evils of 'exploitation' of whatever, Liberals are hypocrites.
Keep in mind that a significant portion of our imported oil is coming from Canada, and the joy gets spread a little farther.
See how easy it is to solve so-called global warming? All you have to do is limit “economic growth” in two provinces.
Oh, did we forget to mention that means ending the production of fossil fuels we depend on for our energy. Oopsey...little oversight on our part.
Yep, it’s David Suzuki.
Everyone in the West hates Ottawa. Ottawa is scum. BC has considerable offshor oil reserves and we can’t develop em because of the leftists in Ottawa, and the leftists in Victoria. Think it as if TX were saddled with an Austin with 12 million people.
He's been that way for 30 years. He fills countless hours of the CBC's leftist broadcast schedule.
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Throw Alberta under the Bus? How about Alberta and Saskatchewan go their own way.
I saw the title, and I immediately thought “Wait, I’ll bet they’re the ones where all the conservatives live.” Yep.
OR.....
Time to revive that old bumper sticker:
"LET THE EASTERN BASTARDS FREEZE IN THE DARK"
Thanks for the map.
It “speaks volumes” to me having grown up in Oklahoma (in an oil
town), with beloved extended family in Alberta (actually in Sherwood
Park “hamlet”).
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