As all the political parties try to jump on the environmental bandwagon, we should all pause and realize this party has been ahead of the game since 2004. Of course, the Parliamentary Committee that was sent to "fix" the so called clean air act (introduced by the Federal "lets fight against Kyoto" conservatives in October of 2006) is being slowed by partisan ploys. Just a few days before the committee must present to the house, this old boys club decided it would be "fitting" to introduce upwards of seventy-two amendments to bill C-30. Wow. Could you bog down parliamentary proceedings any further? Hopefully, the old boys will stop trying to push for an election by making this a money bill, and actually create meaningful environmental legislation-if only because it would take the nation by surprise. Adding insult to environmental injury, these same boys voted against the proposal to make even firmer 2020 and 2050 absolute emissions caps.
I suppose I ought to be happy that at least there has not been further talk federally (well, other than this) of emission intensity targets. So, now my guys and gals on the hill have added these bits and pieces to C-30:
- Short, medium, and long-term greenhouse gas targets
- Earlier deadline for regulating the industrial sector
- A hard cap on greenhouse gas emissions from big polluters
- Leading and mandatory standards for smog-producing "air contaminants"
- Leading vehicle fuel efficiency standards
- A cap and trade carbon market
- Protected government authority to regulate air pollutants and greenhouse gasses
- Effective provincial equivalency rule
- Authority to designate "significant areas" for environmental protection
- Programs reviewed annually
- Building a retrofit fund (perhaps similar to the one this kick-ass woman proposed?
Now, of course, this effective opposition MP (and his team) originally introduced all of these proposals, but...every other party present called the twelfth introduction--eliminating subsidies to the oil and gas sector--out of order. I suppose answering to their true handlers is what it comes down to. Just as a note, the original offenders did not add anything to the bill.
I suppose I ought to be happy that at least there has not been further talk federally (well, other than this) of emission intensity targets. So, now my guys and gals on the hill have added these bits and pieces to C-30:
- Short, medium, and long-term greenhouse gas targets
- Earlier deadline for regulating the industrial sector
- A hard cap on greenhouse gas emissions from big polluters
- Leading and mandatory standards for smog-producing "air contaminants"
- Leading vehicle fuel efficiency standards
- A cap and trade carbon market
- Protected government authority to regulate air pollutants and greenhouse gasses
- Effective provincial equivalency rule
- Authority to designate "significant areas" for environmental protection
- Programs reviewed annually
- Building a retrofit fund (perhaps similar to the one this kick-ass woman proposed?
Now, of course, this effective opposition MP (and his team) originally introduced all of these proposals, but...every other party present called the twelfth introduction--eliminating subsidies to the oil and gas sector--out of order. I suppose answering to their true handlers is what it comes down to. Just as a note, the original offenders did not add anything to the bill.
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Contrary to media reports, but from someone who actually SAT on the committee for the "Clean Air & Climate Change Act" the CBC & Globe were incorrect, and the conservatives actually DO have pieces of their own work in bill C-30. I suppose my sources of information were not quite as good as I thought when I first posted.
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