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Deconstructing the Conservative Party’s climate plan | rabble.ca
The Conservative Party’s “A Real Plan to Protect Our Environment” begins with two big whoppers.
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer cannot own the activities of
Progressive Conservative governments as his party’s “proud legacy”
because the PC governments were progressive and the Conservative Party
is not.
Scheer’s claim that Stephen Harper was responsible for the “net
decline of greenhouse gas emissions between 2007 and 2015” is also
bogus. The Harper government closed research laboratories, gutted
environmental regulations and threatened bird clubs with Canada Revenue
Agency audits for even mentioning “climate change” in the same sentence
as “species loss.” There was a big drop in Canada’s greenhouse gas
emissions that closely corresponds to the 2008 recession which led to a
corresponding slowdown in fossil fuel production. Our emission levels
have been increasing since 2009.
UNESCO gives Canada new deadline to preserve Wood Buffalo National Park | CBC News
A United Nations body has given Canada a new deadline to repair
the country’s largest national park and the government is promising
greater efforts to stop its deterioration.
the country’s largest national park and the government is promising
greater efforts to stop its deterioration.
At a meeting this week
in Baku, Azerbaijan, UNESCO praised Canada for measures it has taken to
stop the toll that industrial development and climate change have taken
on the Wood Buffalo National Park World Heritage Site.
But it said
the park’s status could be endangered because of impacts from hydro
development in British Columbia and dozens of oilsands projects in
Alberta — including one planned for 30 kilometres from the park.
Geothermal energy is taking off globally, so why not in Canada? | The Narwhal
New research
released in April estimates the value of the global geothermal energy
industry will grow to $9 billion by 2025, up from $4 billion in 2018.
released in April estimates the value of the global geothermal energy
industry will grow to $9 billion by 2025, up from $4 billion in 2018.
While this growth is translating to geothermal heated greenhouses in the Netherlands, a zero-emissions power plant in Italy and geothermal chocolate bars in the Philippines, it hasn’t meant much for Canada — despite the country’s substantial documented potential.
Critics call Andrew Scheer’s climate plan a “sad joke”, “insincere” and “a prop”
The Globe and Mail: “It’s nothing more than a sad joke”
An opinion piece
by national affairs columnist Gary Mason asserts that the Conservative
climate “plan” is a fraud and decries Scheer’s motive to scrap the
national carbon tax.
“Climate change is the greatest threat the world has faced since the
rise of Nazism in the early part of the last century. Given the
importance of this issue, given the havoc that will be unleashed if
nothing is done, how depressing it is to realize that this sham of a
document is the best the Conservatives could do,” he wrote.
Clean Prosperity: “Andrew Scheer’s plan is going to cost Canadians more“
Progressive think tank Clean Prosperity published a press release
with a run-through of why Scheer’s climate plan misses the mark. “By
repealing the carbon tax, Andrew Scheer is taking away the best and
lowest cost way to fight climate change. It’s like trying to build a
house without a hammer,” said Michael Bernstein, Executive Director of
Canadians for Clean Prosperity.
Maclean’s…