Minister Prentice went after Quebec here about their climate policy.
Quebec’s new environmental regulations targeting vehicles are an “absolutely counter-productive and utterly pointless” way to cut greenhouse-gas emissions that will ultimately put Canada at a competitive disadvantage in the North American marketplace, the federal Environment Minister said Monday.
When you have the track record that [...]
Ok, so I have held off ranting on this site and kind of just laughed off the clown show that is Canada’s carbon policy.
But now I am mad. With the GoC’s announcement of the -17% target below 2005, which I have no problem with other than it is just another target to be [...]
The wind industry will hate this from the US Energy Department,
Expanding Use of Wind Power Feasible, but May Be Costly
Adding wind gets progressively more difficult as the amount used rises because of wind’s intermittent nature and the need for back-up power generation, according to the study. Without a better grid, the system [...]
Mark Jaccard has a nice short article here on why target trash talking is detrimental. I somehow missed it in December, but here are the headline quotes,
Environmentalists do not seem to have learned anything from this experience. Their criticisms of Canada’s emissions target — a 20 per cent reduction from 2006 levels by 2020 [...]
Post from Seton Stiebert in Copenhagen….
I’ve just arrived with a train load of protesters to bear witness to the crazy zoo that will be COP15. My journey comes via Germany where I’ve spent the last week travelling around and thinking about what COP15 means for Canada. Not surprisingly, Canada is already in [...]
FCM released a report completed by myself and Seton Stiebert today on opportunities and costs for reductions from municipalities. See the report here and coverage here.
Below are some summary points from the report.
There are important reasons that suggest there are strong rationales to focus our climate policy efforts at the municipal level. [...]
McKinsey curves pop-up all the time, as in here today. And I am often asked to produce similar ones (see picture).
But the McKinsey curves have some important flaws, and drive me nuts for a couple of reasons.
First, they assume no baseline. In time technologies will be deployed in response to rising [...]
Tax interaction is where taxes add distortions to the economy (economist raises hands to checks, gasps “inefficiency!” and moans “ooooohhhhh”), and either reinforce each other as bads, or can be used to offset existing bads. The double dividend theory instructs that the hit from abatement costs and payments on emissions (tax on remaining emissions or [...]
This is a must read leading up to Copenhagen. Not a lot to disagree with. Essentially, economic obesity and Mr Harper have turned Canada into the North Korea of the climate world.
Canada’s image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling
The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. [...]
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