aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Friends of the Earth U.S. released a new report today calling the use of international carbon offsets a dangerous distraction” that could lead to climate disaster if relied upon too heavily as the U.S. Senate returns to debate energy and climat...

topics: economy, emissions, global-warming, greenhouse-gas, investment

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

CBC, Globe % Mail and the Wilderness Committee press releaseWhatever credibility this government thought it had as a result of its carbon tax and its program to expand run of the river power projects has now been completely lost. The impact on Tran...

topics: carbon-tax, economy, emissions, environment, greenhouse-gas

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Richard Tol.jpg The most successful Libertarian politician in Canadian history, Globe and Mail columnist Neil Reynolds, has joined the campaign to do nothing about climate change, basing his argument...

topics: agriculture, climate-change, environment, environmental, forestry

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

What appears to be an article in the Times Colonist is uncreditted, and reads like a letter to the editor from an all ill informed reader. A journalist writing such a story would at the very least pick up a phone and call Translink s press office. T...

topics: downtown, emissions, greenhouse-gas, transit, translink

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

The provincial government will be spending to $225,000 to commission reports assessing the economic and greenhouse gas emission impacts of various cap-and-trade system scenarios, Public Eye has learned. We want to be prepared, from a negotiating sta...

topics: greenhouse-gas, provincial-government

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

From the North Shore News (August 12, 2009):ALL three North Shore mayors agree that TransLink will eventually have to start tolling the region's transportation routes, including the North Shore's major bridges. I think road pricing is inevitable, sa...

topics: climate-change, greenhouse-gas, mayor, north-vancouver, transit

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lomborg.jpg The Disingenuous Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg has once again celebrated a public epiphany on climate change, bringing him. once again, to the conclusion that the globe is warming, that ...

topics: climate-change, emissions, greenhouse-gas

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Vaughan Palmer in the Sun kicks the ball into the open goal. I am not sure if the the tax on bikes is actually the most important feature but it does once again give the lie to the Liberal s pretence to care about greenhouse gas emissions or urban ...

topics: bc-rail, business, carbon-tax, developers, election

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Globe and MailFrances Bula writes about the problem of funding transit expansion as though it were a dialogue between two levels of government the province and the Mayors of the region. But it clearly is not a dialogue of equals. Transit expansion ...

topics: bc-rail, carbon-tax, emissions, environment, environmental

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chu jon stewart global warming.jpg Last night's guest on the Jon Stewart Show was Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu.They spent much of the discussion talking about the Global Warming Denier crowd an...

topics: climate-change, elected, emissions, environmental, global-warming