Ottawa reneges on Liberal pledge to help poor countries cut greenhouse gas

[Harper_is_Bush]

Ottawa reneges on Liberal pledge to help poor countries cut greenhouse gases
at 16:58 on September 10, 2006, EST.

OTTAWA (CP) - The federal Conservatives are cancelling a $1.5 million pledge by the previous Liberal government to help developing countries cut greenhouse emissions under the rules of the Kyoto Protocol.

Abandoning the pledge made at a United Nations conference in Montreal last December is another blow to the teetering climate treaty which the Conservative government still claims to support.

The money would have gone to the treaty's clean development mechanism (CDM), which allows industrialized countries to earn credits by investing in emissions-cutting projects in the Third World.

"Taxpayers' dollars will not be spent on international credits," said Ryan Sparrow, spokesman for Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, in an interview.

http://www.cjob.com/news/index.aspx?dir=national&src=ext&rem=./n091027A.xml

More Stephen Harper driving Canada down the road to ruin.

Stay tuned for his "green plan" this fall. It's expected to largely ignore Global Warming.

[Deja Q]

1. I wish US conservatives were more like that...

"Taxpayers' dollars will not be spent on international credits,"

E.g. corporate welfare ($500,000 given to mcdonalds so they can sell fried chicken pieces in the country of Turkey), H1B abuse, offshoring, et cetera.

I also wish each country was responsible for its own emissions.

[StClone]

2. Canadian Posters assured us their Gov.

Could not be railroaded as USA's has. With millions of dollars, the best minds money can misdirect and hard-on for mayhem and oil power, the crooks will find a way to subvert any institution. If the holy Catholic Church can be subverted what is safe?

[CHIMO]

3. Looks Like

The Canucks bought the whole US government.

U.S. panel to dole out duty dollars

WASHINGTON - Sensitive to accusations of setting up a secret Republican political slush fund, the Bush administration plans to announce next week that a non-partisan foundation will dole out US$450-million in Canadian lumber duties to worthy U.S. causes.

Sources say President George W. Bush will create a seven-member "independent endowment foundation" that will also include several Canadian observers.

The U.S.-run foundation will decide how about half of the US$1-billion remaining in the United States from the softwood lumber settlement with Canada will be distributed.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=6f2d2637-2695-4ec5-bcd8-63c18ac85109&k=73655

[Lisa]

4. I haven't got much hope for their much-touted "made in Canada" plan

A bunch of people I know, who were working on domestic carbon sequestration plans, have been laid off. If Harper were doing anything along these lines this fall, it would have made more financial sense to keep them working (rather than reconstitute the entire organization from scratch). I fear that they plan to ignore the issue -- when we already know that the "voluntary" approach pushed by the White House (and to some extent by the previous Canadian government) is failing.

Harper will probably "play chicken" with Kyoto, and the lumber agreement -- gambling that the other parties don't want another election so soon.

[applegrove]

5. Harper diminishes us all with every single step. I want him to say...

"good government" at least one time. It is in the Canadian mantra..and so far he has avoided saying it "peace, order & good government" in the last election.

Anyone wanna wager that he never says it. Cause dammned if he only wants order.. the peace and the good government ..are the enemy of the neocon.