Will the Green agenda fade?

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OTTAWA -- Green party Leader Elizabeth May has come under attack by senior members of her own party who are upset with her management of the organization and fear she is trying to avoid a mandatory leadership review that party rules say must be held this year.

Canwest News Service has learned that at least one member of the party's 26-member governing council, worried about the organization's finances, has asked for weekly expenditure reports. The party's campaign manager, Catharine Johannson, was laid off this past week; the party's executive director, Maureen Murphy, has resigned; and the chairwoman of the party's governing council, Donna Dillman, has also resigned. Some other staff, involved in regional organization, have also been laid off.

Ms. May said from Victoria on Friday that while most of the layoffs were a result of the party trying to accelerate payments on about $1.13-million worth of debt left over from the $3-million the party borrowed for the last election, Ms. Johannson's termination was a result of a decision the governing council made to restructure the party. Ms. May said she hopes to persuade Ms. Johannson to continue to provide help with the party.

Ms. Dillman declined to explain why she resigned, beyond saying "it was time." She said she remains a supporter of Ms. May's, who Ms. Dillman says "works too hard and we're lucky to have her."

But some party members believe Ms. May's four-year tenure ought to end.
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Lawrence Solomon: A dying initiative
Posted: February 17, 2010, 7:33 PM by NP Editor
lawrence solomon, carbon trading
The Western Climate Initiative’s cap and trade market may soon need to be renamed The Canada Climate Initiative.

Until last week, the Western Climate Initiative boasted seven U.S. states and four Canadian provinces who were working toward the launch of a regional cap and trade system on Jan. 1, 2012. Last Thursday, Arizona formally announced it was backing out of cap and trade. As the state with the fastest rate of emission growth — 61% between 1990 and 2007 — many feared a body blow to Arizona’s economy if it tried to meet the initiative’s carbon reduction goals.

The following morning neighbouring Utah indicated it might follow suit. By a 6 to 2 vote, its House Committee on Public Utilities and Technology passed a nonbinding resolution to urge Governor Gary Herbert to pull out of the Western Climate Initiative. Earlier in the week, the full Utah House voted resoundingly — 56 to 17 — to curb any carbon-curbing attempts by the federal government’s Environmental Protection Agency. Specifically, the resolution introduced into the House “urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency to halt its carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs and with its ‘Endangerment Finding’ and related regulations until a full and independent investigation of the climate data conspiracy and global warming science can be substantiated.”

To date, only four of the 11 jurisdictions have adopted legislation that would allow them to participate in the cap-trade-market: California, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, with Manitoba appearing close to joining. Oregon, Washington, Montana and New Mexico have not yet adopted cap-and-trade legislation and now California, which is tottering toward bankruptcy, has become iffy: A voter initiative in California, if it passes in November, would halt the cap-and-trade program until unemployment falls to 5.5%.

Even before last week’s climate revolt, many believed the Western Climate Initiative unofficially died with the ascension of Barack Obama to the presidency. When George W. Bush was U.S. president, those backing climate change legislation could argue for a regional plan on the basis that national legislation would never pass a Bush presidency. As soon as Obama came to office, pressure built in the western states to abandon the regional cap and trade plan, on the logic that the states should harmonize with federal cap and trade policy. Now that federal cap and trade legislation appears dead, the states have cooled further to regional trading.

The upshot? By the end of the year, the only jurisdictions left in the Western Climate Initiative’s cap and trade program could be the Canadian provinces.



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Time to lobby BC to pull out of this farce too - leaving only the dottering fools in the East to fight over who gets to push their economies further down the toilet in a race to the bottom. The only reason this initiative was formed was to get awards and approvals from the enviro-fascist nutters environmental groups at conferences like Copenhagen. Take your award and go Gordo - we the taxpayers have had enough of subsidizing this nonsense.

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Top UN climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal.

Mr. de Boer is known to be deeply disappointed with outcome of the last summit in Copenhagen, which drew 120 world leaders but failed to reach more than a vague promise by several countries to limit carbon emissions – and even that deal fell short of consensus.

Mr. de Boer said he will be a consultant on climate and sustainability issues for KPMG, a global accounting firm, and will be associated with several universities.

Full article:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/wor ... le1472323/

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Montreal schools ban green cleaning products

Dr. Louis Jacques, who works for the health department, said Friday that he has studied research on such products, and is worried the very thing that makes them green could cause allergic reactions in children

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/0 ... z0ggryYU5L
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Say "yes" to Enbridge - real energy technology

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Say "yes" to Enbridge - real energy technology

Not in my back yard!

[steven lloyd]

Not in my back yard!

Okay, we'll put it in Kitimat

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Not in my back yard!

Okay, we'll put it in Kitimat

Too close to what comprises my back yard, or at least its output/onward transportation is.

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I was watching a piece that showed the route the tankers would be travelling. It followed the chain of Aleutian Islands (off Alaska) and across the very north pacific to travel close to Japan before veering in toward China. They couldn’t travel any farther away from your island, but if you’re still uncomfortable I suppose moving back inland is always an option.

Me? I can hardly wait for the economic boom :o


Later :smt039

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I was watching a piece that showed the route the tankers would be travelling. It followed the chain of Aleutian Islands (off Alaska) and across the very north pacific to travel close to Japan before veering in toward China. They couldn’t travel any farther away from your island, but if you’re still uncomfortable I suppose moving back inland is always an option.

Me? I can hardly wait for the economic boom :o


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Not so in the case of any shipments heading to the US west coast, which will inevitably happen. As for me moving inland, why should I have to do that to avoid your potential mess? And the "economic boom" you speak of as a result is far from a done deal anyway, ...if in fact it ever happens at all.

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[steven lloyd]

As for me moving inland, why should I have to do that to avoid your potential mess?

The pipeline is going to happen, so if it's something you're scared of you have a choice to make.

And the "economic boom" you speak of as a result is far from a done deal anyway, ...if in fact it ever happens at all. Nab

:127: ya, okay.

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The pipeline is going to happen, so if it's something you're scared of you have a choice to make.

So, what makes you so confident of that? And when do you think it will happen (i.e. how many years down the road?) Harper seems to think it is a long way off if it happens at all. But they rented him some Panda Bears, and still own any of their offspring born in Canada should that happen :dyinglaughing:

Who's the dummy LOL?

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