Moderate...?
Republican...???
Posted on 11/13/2004 6:44:00 AM PST by eabinga
Nine North Eastern US states are asserting their independence from the country's federal government by implementing the Kyoto protocol on global warming. The regional initiative is being led by New York state Governor George Pataki (pictured), a moderate Republican, who hopes to announce the full details by next April.
In addition to the states that have signed up to Mr Pataki’s scheme, two other US states and several Canadian provinces are involved as observers. Their intention is to have a cap and trade scheme up and running by 2008, with polluting industries allocated a CO2 emission allowance that can be traded with other participants.
Informal talks have also taken place between the nine states and the European Union, aimed at bringing them into the international trading scheme.
The announcement is a major embarrassment for US President Bush, who has refused to accept that global warming exists, and follows a recent decision by the state of California to provide funding for stem cell research, another initiative blocked at the federal level by the President.
The latest move adds to the mounting international pressure on the Bush administration to eventually sign up to Kyoto.
“There’s no question that this turns up pressure on the federal government,” Peter Vaborowsky of Evolution Markets, a brokerage specialising in the environmental sector, told the ‘Independent’. “In the past when individual states have taken action on other pollutants, the federal government has then taken action.”
After years of delay, the Kyoto Protocol is finally due to come into force within the next three months, following ratification by the Russian parliament last week.
If Pataki really believed that strongly in Kyoto, he would push implementation of Kyoto on an accelerated track in time to destroy enough businesses to ruin HitLIARY's re-election chances in '06.
Meantime, If I were Bush, I would let Pataki have all the rope he and his fellow blue state governors need to hang themselves, then begin arresting them for violations of the Constitution and federal law.
Sounds to me, however, as though the move toward blue state secession is underway - led by Pataki.
Buh-bye, ya'll!!
Don't come back or look for help when you are the newest members in the third world!
(I LOVE leftist, intellectual, smarter-than-thou stupidity!!!)
"Sounds to me, however, as though the move toward blue state secession is underway - led by Pataki."
If liberal states do declare that they will secede from the Union, it will start another civil war.
Pataki and any other liberal state can institute the Kyoto protocols if they wish.
BUT they may NOT do it by signing an 'international treaty'.
Only the Federal government can do that.
Yes, the rat governors better word their global warming laws carefully. If they do not, the illegal laws may be ignored by companies and individual.
Not only is it NOT an major embarrassment but I doubt the President could care less. What the British press doesn't understand is we have a concept here called "Federalism" that allows states to do what they want within Constitutional guidelines.
It amazes me that as bad as the American press is, the British are even worse. But I guess the philosophy of "never letting facts get in the way of a good story" is alive and well.
BTTT!!!!!!
There goes more industry off shore, or maybe down to Dixie.
Hee,Hee,Hee-bring 'em on, we know how to show our
appreciation to job creators.
Thank you NY and the Loco Kyota accord.
Moderate...?
Republican...???
We can argue the merits of a civil war, but I sincerely doubt it will come to that. Besides, the Constitution allows states to secede against the tyranny of the central government.
Granted, the tyranny is coming from the blue states and not the central government, so it should present something of an interesting conundrum.
Film at 11.
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