Canada's greenhouse gas plan rapped by govt panel - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Canada's greenhouse gas plan rapped by govt panel
22 Sep 2007 18:54:57 GMT
Source: Reuters

By David Ljunggren

OTTAWA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Canada's own environmental
advisory body criticized the government's plan to cut
greenhouse gas emissions just days before Prime Minister
Stephen Harper was to discuss his climate change policy in
New York.

Harper introduced the plan this year to replace the Kyoto
protocol on climate change, which he said imposed impossible
targets on Canada. He aims to bring greenhouse gas emissions
20 percent below current levels by 2020.

But the National Roundtable on the Environment and the
Economy said important parts of the plan were vague and
exaggerated the extent of emissions cuts.

In a report released late on Friday, the group pointed to
inconsistencies in the government's calculations and said some
of the data was either too murky or too skimpy.

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[applegrove]

1. Good for them!

[razzleberry]

2. business as usual

what else would you expect from a Kyoto deadbeat?