Via CBC News, what a great irony for Climategate day:
Senate kills climate change bill
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The Canadian Press
Senators have voted down an opposition bill to tackle climate change with just days to go before another round of United Nations talks in Mexico.
NDP Leader Jack Layton, whose party introduced the bill, says it’s “outrageous” an unelected Senate can kill what he says is important legislation.
The bill — the Climate Change Accountability Act — has spent the last year or so bouncing between the full House of Commons and its environment committee. The vote was late Tuesday.
The legislation calls for greenhouse gases to be cut 25 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.
That’s more stringent than the Harper government’s goal of a 17 per cent emissions cut from 2005 levels by 2020, which is in line with the Obama administration’s targets in the United States.
Delegates from nearly 200 countries will meet in the resort town of Cancun later this month and try to broker an international climate-change deal.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/17/senate-climate-bill.html#ixzz15Z4F3lHv
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h/t to a bunch of people who read WUWT, so many I couldn’t choose who to credit with a hat tip, soo I’ll hat tip you all.
A robust sign of intelligence in planet Earth!
Ken Boldt says:
November 17, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Does that mean you don’t vote in elections?
One of the worst parts of this legislation is that no one even knew what regulations would spring from it. The Bill was one of those “Framework” Acts that the Government has become fond of in the past decade. It is like an undecorated Christmas tree. You start adding “decorations” (ie regulations) AFTER the Bill has passed. All you need to do is print them in the Canada Gazette. You do not need to put them through the House of Commons or the Senate.
How are businesses and individuals supposed to be able to plan their long-term energy use under such circumstances?
I have already installed a high-efficeincy gas furnace, installed those twisty lightbulbs and take the bus to work. There’s not much left to cut, but somehow I was supposed to reduce my emissions by another 80%?
And if I don’t what then?
Fines?
Prison???
Maybe the supporters of this Bill figure with all Canadians sitting in cold, lightless (no oil, gas or coal, no electricity except on windy days) prison cells, we could finally meet our “international climate obligations.”
The sound of silence on this issue from the warmist MSM here in Canada is deafening, or is it just me ???
Anthony, May I bring to your attention a follow up on this story as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In Canadian terms this article is unprecedented.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/18/greg-weston-climate-change-bill.html#socialcomments
Away team to Scotty – hold on that beam out, we are picking up signs of intelligent life- the seem to be centered in the government of Canada, we must explore this phenomenon
further, it just might save this society of pre- fusion humanoids from self destructing.
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Mr Cripwell-
I clicked that link and was stunned- The CBC? reported the TRUTH?!
holy hanna what’s up with that?!