One of my past bosses, lawyer Steven Shrybman was commenting at a recent conference on water in Ottawa, reiterating something that has been an issue pre-NAFTA: water should not be treated as a commodity as it needs to be protected as a basic human right. Shrybman was pushing for a policy to protect our water from privatization. Given how long many people have been pushing for this, one may ...
According to a Decima Research study 40% of Canadians surveyed ages 19-29 are more concerned about global warming than about war, getting a job or the opposite sex! Hard to believe (I wonder what the percentage would have been a year ago-before the media hopped on the climate change bandwagon?) . The information, compiled for the Smirnoff Purity Report also found that the hybrid car was ranke ...
Well Canada is not one to talk. china has said essentially exactly what Harper said recently-it will work on global warming but will not sacrifice economic advances in order to do so. While I don't really agree with this and think it is a short sighted approach, I think it makes a lot more sense coming from China than from Canada. China notes that the wealthy countries have produced most of ...
According to the Vancouver Sun (cover story, June 5, 2007) the International Ari Transport Association CEO has said that the global airline sector must become "a completely non-polluting industry-meaning "zero emissions"-within 50 years". He made this statement at a recent meeting in Vancouver. He noted that the airline industry's huge carbon footprint is not acceptable. He notes that it is ...
So our prime minister is over talking to the German leaders (note: Germany is on track to meet its Kyoto targets) about the Canadian approach to climate change. To oversimplify, our new approach is not to reduce overall emissions of green house gases, but to reduce intensity (ie. percentage discharge related to production-therefore if production levels increase, as they will, then ultimate em ...