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Canada's greenhouse gas emissions far above target
Reuters/Yahoo ^ | 5/10/2006

Posted on 05/11/2006 10:55:05 AM PDT by Uncledave

Canada's greenhouse gas emissions far above target

Wed May 10, 3:07 PM ET

Canada's emissions of greenhouse gases are now 35 percent above the level it promised to reach under the Kyoto climate change accord and the country would have to ground every train, plane and car to meet its target, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose said on Wednesday.

Ambrose, a member of the new Conservative government, says Canada has no chance of meeting a Kyoto commitment to cut emissions to 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12. The target was agreed by the previous Liberal government.

"Later this week we will release Canada's greenhouse gas inventory and it will show that Canada's (level of emissions) is now 35 percent higher than the Kyoto targets that the Liberals set," she told Parliament.

"To put that into perspective ... that would mean that today we would have to take every train, plane and automobile off the streets of Canada. That is not realistic."

The most recent data showed Canada's emissions were running 24.4 percent above 1990 levels. These will rise as oil sands are further developed in the energy-rich western province of Alberta -- which is also the main political base of the Conservative government.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hosers
Kyoto, Schmyoto.

Gotta love how Reuters end the piece with a bit that's irrelavent to the story yet attempts to hook the problem, now and in the future, on the new conservative government.

"The most recent data showed Canada's emissions were running 24.4 percent above 1990 levels. These will rise as oil sands are further developed in the energy-rich western province of Alberta -- which is also the main political base of the Conservative government."

1 posted on 05/11/2006 10:55:06 AM PDT by Uncledave
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To: Uncledave

at least they have a target.


2 posted on 05/11/2006 10:56:43 AM PDT by Szent_Adam_Kiraly ("google maps is the best! " "true that, Double true!")
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To: Uncledave

They haven't dumped Kyoto yet?


3 posted on 05/11/2006 10:56:53 AM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Uncledave

It is coming from all that pot smoke.


4 posted on 05/11/2006 11:00:35 AM PDT by catmanblack. (he is the great I AM-)
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To: Uncledave
Canada's emissions of greenhouse gases are now 35 percent above the level it promised to reach under the Kyoto climate change accord and the country would have to ground every train, plane and car to meet its target, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose said on Wednesday.

There's a part of me that would love to see this. Imagine how silly Canada would look when they've become the largest supplier of oil to the U.S. (they surpassed Saudi Arabia a few years ago) and can't even use most of the oil they extract.

5 posted on 05/11/2006 11:01:48 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Uncledave
"Later this week we will release Canada's greenhouse gas inventory and it will show that Canada's (level of emissions) is now 35 percent higher than the Kyoto targets that the Liberals set," she told Parliament.

..and where would the United States be if Global Warmhead Gore was elected in 2000?

Doogle

6 posted on 05/11/2006 11:03:50 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF...8th TFW...Ubon Thailand...408thMMS..."69"...Night Line Delivery...AMMO!!)
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To: Uncledave

LOL. I guess they better start buying some greenhouse gas credits from Finland!


7 posted on 05/11/2006 11:12:00 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: Uncledave; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; ...

Canada ping.

Please FReepmail me to get on or off this ping list.

8 posted on 05/11/2006 11:13:08 AM PDT by fanfan (FR is the best/biggest news gathering entity in the whole known history of the world. Thanks Jim.)
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To: Uncledave

That is a bogus comment by Reuters.

Are they trying to cast aspersions? I would hope the liberal media would be beyond that.


9 posted on 05/11/2006 11:13:46 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: Uncledave


...well you can always raise taxes and ban free speech (typical liberal answers)...


10 posted on 05/11/2006 11:23:28 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Uncledave; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Catholic Canadian; ...

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11 posted on 05/11/2006 11:25:25 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Uncledave

"To put that into perspective ... that would mean that today we would have to take every train, plane and automobile off the streets of Canada. That is not realistic."

Maybe not that unrealistic. We've already taken almost every train and plane off the streets. Still working on buses, trucks, and automobiles.


12 posted on 05/11/2006 12:00:04 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Now if we could only stop breathing we may have a chance to make some progress.


13 posted on 05/11/2006 4:11:24 PM PDT by styky (All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor)
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To: Clive

Emissions will not go down until low-emission technologies are developed and introduced. The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Climate aims to do just that and I'll bet Canada soon joins.


14 posted on 05/11/2006 11:43:22 PM PDT by Fair Go
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To: Uncledave
There's no chance the Conservatives will put Alberta out of business. I say Kyoto bites the dust in Canada.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

15 posted on 05/11/2006 11:48:10 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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