Yesterday was a down day, but here are a few items in case you missed them:
As Al Gore takes his resource hogging, CO2 spewing crusade through the Canadian West, the Alberta Premier tells the Goracal (a paraphrase): "...if you don't like the oilsands, get your country to stop buying oil from it":
But Stelmach, who hasn't seen the documentary, said Monday in Calgary the province is merely feeding Americans' insatiable demand for energy, so perhaps ore should look closer to home.
Over at the Toronto 'Red' Star, they want to know if you are a "Invested Materialists" or a "Ambivalent Materialists" or part of the "Suzuki Nation". The insidious part about this is they tie the man-made global warming issue into the general pollution issue. Who in their right ind wants polluted air and water? I am against those and believe energy conservation is a good thing. I am against spending billions of dollars on a problem that has been created by unreliable computer models and simply is not true. Anyway, they are mostly talking about a marketing scheme:
Environment Canada was also advised to push those "most responsible for influencing or making the types of decisions that can have a positive environmental impact" into considering the environment in their shopping habits.
The report by [American] market researcher Phoenix Strategies suggests individuals can be pushed into environmental action with targeted communications.
(emphasis and addition mine).
And finally, Lorrie Goldstein of the Toronto Sun likes what Baird and the Conservatives have said about Kyoto:
Environment Minister John Baird deserves credit for finally getting a serious discussion going about the real costs of implementing the Kyoto accord. Up to now, we've been sleep walking toward disaster.
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Yesterday, the National Post said the Liberals had studies in 2000 estimating that complying with Kyoto would result in a loss of $4,400 of disposable income for a typical family, close to Baird's numbers. Is that true?
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Last week, Baird called his [Dion's] bluff. About time.
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