Harper giving incentives to biggest emitters -GW/CC

Karlin

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The Tar Sands are Canada's biggest single site emitters of greenhouse gasses causing global warming.

Harper's "can't do" attitude seems to come from wanting to protect those big oil corporations and nothing to do with 'is it possible' to reduce our emissions.

Harper seems unwilling to find solutions
http://www.thestar.com/article/182293
Harper likes to imply that actually meeting Kyoto targets would require unbearable sacrifices by Canadians.

He recently suggested we'd have to live in unheated homes all winter.

He seems to be trying to keep the focus away from reasonable and promising solutions, like clamping down on large industrial emitters, an approach called for in the opposition bill rejected by the Conservatives.

Above all, Harper seems keen to avoid clamping down on the oil sands.

Indeed, Harper's weak embrace of the environmental cause is perhaps best revealed by his refusal to end a special federal subsidy enjoyed by oil sands developers, a constituency that Harper has long been close to.
Under the Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance, oil-sands developers are allowed to deduct 100 per cent of their capital costs immediately – a tax perk that far exceeds the generosity of the 25 per cent deduction available to companies investing in conventional oil projects.

The allowance, introduced in 1996, was justified as a way to stimulate investment in the oil sands at a time when the potential of the resource hadn't yet been proven, and low world oil prices made development costs seem prohibitive.



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No matter how hopeless the situation in Afghanistan, Harper vows that Canada will be there, as a “country that leads, not that just follows.”

Yet in the battle against climate change – a far more important battle, by any reasonable measure – Canada, under the Conservatives, doesn’t lead or follow. It doesn’t even bother to show up.
 

Tonington

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Oct 27, 2006
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Well the Heritage Fund is near $15 Billion now. Maybe Alberta could use a portion of that money to make the tar sands projects cleaner, or maybe Ottawa could enter a spending agreement, as they make money off the tar sands also. I think so far they've been using the interest generated by that fund to pay for things.
 

karra

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Jan 3, 2006
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The Tar Sands are Canada's biggest single site emitters of greenhouse gasses causing global warming.
What glowbal warming - the biggest bunch of methane emitters other than our source of beef and milk is the far left who swallowed whole the Strong/Gore unconvenient trooth which is truly inconvenient for the ROW.

In other words, Harper is doing an exemplary job of not buying into yet another Liberal boondoggle - you go Steve!!! :)
 

wallyj

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May 7, 2006
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not in Kansas anymore
An inconvenient truth,the tarsands are not the biggest emitters. That honour belongs to a power plant in Ontario. In fact the tarsands are # 6 in Canada. But they are the biggest target for people who do not let facts get in the way of a good lie.