A sudden outbreak of sanity seems to have taken hold Canada. Firstly the idea of a carbon tax appears to have been killed off for good:
Conservatives kill carbon tax
Conservatives have kiboshed a carbon tax, Environment Minister Peter Kent confirmed Thursday.
“It’s off the table,” he told reporters Thursday after accepting an award from World Wildlife Fund International on behalf of Parks Canada.
“There’s no expectation of cap-and-trade continentally in the near or medium future.”
…and then this:
Government delays pulling plug on old-fashioned light bulbs
Tories propose pushing deadline to 2014 over lack of alternatives to incandescents
The Conservative government wants to postpone pulling the plug on incandescent light bulbs, saying it needs more time to allow for technological innovations and to deal with concerns about compact fluorescent lamps.
(H/T to Ross McKitrick, who offers to send a real estate guide, and to Bishop-Hill, where this post was pinched from, but good news needs sharing)
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Then it would be time for British-Columbia to dump this stupid carbon tax too.
This is what a Conservative (not pretend Conservative) majority government cand do. Let’s hope the incadescent ban is extended even further to never.
Americans please note, you will be able to purchase incadescents in Canada.
I dislike compact flourescents, so do the fixtures in this house, but I’ve spent time in Canada, and it’s a little too chilly for my blood most of the year. I guess I’ll tough it out here with the CFLs here in the U.S.
Incandescent bulbs are very efficient in Canada.
The waste heat isn’t wasted if it helps keep your house warm.
In the same way, the payback on more efficient bulbs is much faster in places where you run the air conditioning most of the year.
Great, now I gotta go get my light bulbs from Canada……
In Australia we have the useless compact light bulbs. Julia Gillard is singing the praises of UK for going ahead with the Carbon Tax, Tony Abbott the opposition leader is praising Canada for voting in a party that opposes the Carbon Tax.
IMO Julia will lose the next election because of her lying about not bringing in the Carbon (Dioxide) Tax, but she has done a lot of damage in the meantime.
Oh Boy. Suzuki will totally flip out. For sure he’ll cry himself to sleep each night.
The Conservatives have only been in power a couple of weeks and they’re already a winner.
The real estate guide sounds interesting , but how long will this government last ?
The Canadian dollar is stronger than the US dollar too.
Yes!
and to deal with concerns about compact fluorescent lamps.
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There’s limits by the FDA, EPA, etc on how much tuna you should eat….
….especially if you are in one of the high risk groups, pregnant, etc
All because of mercury.
If these stupid light bulbs weren’t a “green” idea, the greens would be all over it………….
Just try putting that much mercury in someone’s home as a carpet cleaner, furniture polish, bug spray, Windex!
They would be screaming their stupid heads off.
Bob Tisdale says:
May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
I dislike compact flourescents, so do the fixtures in this house, but I’ve spent time in Canada, and it’s a little too chilly for my blood most of the year. I guess I’ll tough it out here with the CFLs here in the U.S.
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Wuss. 🙂
“but how long will this government last?”
It’s a freshly minted majority – good for at lest four years. The usual opposition, the Liberals, were decimated in the election and are in total disarray. If the Conseratives govern well and sustain a healthy economy, they’re a slam dunk for another four after that at least!
“The real estate guide sounds interesting , but how long will this government last ?”
Next election is Oct 2015. Plenty of time for this type of sanity to be nurtured and grown.
P Walker says:
May 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm
The real estate guide sounds interesting , but how long will this government last ?
At least four years, maybe(likely) more unless they really screw up. The effective competition was completely decimated in the recent election and the upper house has been secured. Of course, its politics. Can’t hold us to nothin’…
Personally, the SMD led bulbs have gotten cheap enough that the are more than cost effective against incandescents. Global warming be damned, I am just cheap. With power in my area at about 25 cents per kwh delivered, the difference in running 30W of led vs 240W of incandescent mounts up fast enough to justify the expense.
Did we tell you our economy is in pretty good shape too? Housing might not be a bargain. I understand real estate is a better deal south of the border. The only downside of all this good news will the new wave of Brits and Euros who immigrate over, drink our beer, chase our women and constantly tell us how much better things would be if we ran them like they do in the places they came from… 🙂 🙂 :)~
Also by McKitrick at National Post recently:
Ontario’s Power Trip: The failure of the Green Energy Act
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/05/16/ontarios-power-trip-the-failure-of-the-green-energy-act/
Funny. The WWF officials must have wanted to take their award back after that comment.
And Suzuki will be screaming for everyone who doesn’t agree with him must be thrown in jail, again.
Yo! Canada!
@Robert of Ottawa
Great now something else for the border patrol gestapo to search and seize. Free country indeed! /sarc?
In the UK we have a ‘Campaign to Repeal the Climate Act’ just getting up and running. Temporary website http://www.repealtheact.co.uk. Johnny Ball and Prof. David Bellamy are patrons.
Robert of Ottawa says May 19, 2011 at 1:58 pm
This is what a Conservative (not pretend Conservative) majority government cand do. Let’s hope the incadescent ban is extended even further to never.
Americans please note, you will be able to purchase incandescents in Canada
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The “bootleggers” are going to make a killing “bringing it in from Canada”!
At every border crossing small stands selling “heat globes” for personal space heating and Easy Bake Ovens will start to pop up and start raking in gobs of quick easy cash.
Bob Tisdale says:
May 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
I dislike compact flourescents, so do the fixtures in this house, but I’ve spent time in Canada, and it’s a little too chilly for my blood most of the year. I guess I’ll tough it out here with the CFLs here in the U.S.
http://barelybad.com/north_of_canada_map.htm
Canada, eh? – sounds good – where can I sign up and join the good sense brigade!!
Any Canadians out there want to find/offer a geotechnical engineer a job? LOL