Here, on Brad Wall's appalling admission that the Saskatchewan Party's plan for a low-carbon economy is to move into Ontario's basement rather than pursuing sustainable development in Saskatchewan.
For further reading...
- Wall's comments and other provincial positions in the lead up to this week's premiers' meeting can be found here.
- Geoffrey Vendeville reported on the earlier cap-and-trade agreement between Ontario and Quebec. And Yasmine Hassan discussed the massive Quebec climate change rally.
- The Saskatchewan greenhouse gas bill which has been passed but never proclaimed in force can be found here (PDF).
- Joe Romm reports on the new cost-effectiveness of electric car batteries here. And Tom Randall and John Lippert both point out that storage costs are also plummeting for solar power generation.
Until we rid the body politic of the fossil fuelled politicians (Wall, Harper, Prentice....), no real progress will be possible.
ReplyDeleteWe're utterly mired in petro-statehood, at least across the west. Your man, Wall, put up every fossil fueler talking point possible. Canada only produces 2% of the world's emissions, blah, blah, blah. "Clean coal" blah, blah, blah. Sequestration, blah, blah, blah.
ReplyDeleteI was dismayed at the premiers' meeting when there was no general commitment to leaving high-carbon fossil fuels in the ground, without which mankind doesn't have much hope of avoiding catastrophic consequences this century. If 80% of known reserves must be abandoned with just 20% usable to see us through the transition, coal and bitumen have to be quickly phased out. Brad Wall sounds like a West Virginia Republican, chapter and verse.
All too true on all counts. And the truly sad part is that the premiers too (with Wall's interference playing a big part) felt the need to water down even modest and unenforceable statements of principle - making the kind of determined and collective action necessary to break the fossil fuel habit look all the more distant.
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