Posted on 12/18/2009 10:38:41 AM PST by Clive
COPENHAGEN -- Green groups on Friday named Canada "Fossil of the Year" -- an award that carried the additional honorific of "Colossal Fossil" -- for what they said was a strategy to sabotage efforts to tackle climate change.
"Canada's 2020 [emissions] target is among the worst in the industrialised world, and leaked cabinet documents revealed that the government is contemplating a cap-and-trade plan so weak that it would put even that target out of reach," said Climate Action Network International and Avaaz.org.
"This government thinks there's a choice between environment and economy, and for them, tar sands beats climate every time.
"Canada's emissions are headed nowhere but up. For all this and more, we nominate Canada for the Colossal Fossil."
Tar sands are a bitumen deposit, containing heavy oil, that has very high levels of carbon, which is released as a heat-trapping greenhouse-gas when burned.
The mock award is a colourful feature at the two-week annual conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Does anyone really care what Green Groups say or even think?
Aside from politicians, the unemployable, the welfare leeches, the insane, the parasites of society and government bureaucrats, that is.
I disagree.
Spine is not in short supply south of the border, with the possible exception ef Republican politicians.
The difference I perceive is Canadians exhibiting more brains.
Just saying.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.