CTVNews.ca Staff
Date: Sun. Nov. 27 2011 10:08 PM ET
Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned.
The Harper government has tentatively planned an announcement for a few days before Christmas, CTV’s Roger Smith reported Sunday evening.
The developments come as Environment Minister Peter Kent prepares for a climate conference in Durban, South Africa that opens on Monday, with delegates from 190 countries seeking a new international agreement for cutting emissions.
h/t to WUWT reader Howard B
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via Slashdot – “Alberta’s $60 million carbon-cutting program is failing, according to the latest report from the Canadian province’s auditor-general, Merwan Saher. A news article in Nature adds: ‘the province, despite earlier warnings, has not improved its regulatory structure — and calls the emissions estimates and the offsets themselves into question.'”
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ClimateForAll says:
November 27, 2011 at 11:37 pm
The researchers found that CO2 absorption in high latitude regions in the northern hemisphere, including Russia’s Siberia, was higher than earlier estimated. They add that greater CO2 emissions were observed in regions near the equator.
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CFA, C3’s are better at sequestering CO2…..
..biology gets in the way of this CO2 mess every time….but biology is harder than math
….and climatologists can’t even do math
I agree, this should be on the front of every blog……why isn’t it?
Hills pockmarked with wind power and fields of large scale solar power should be next on the list. Regardless of ways in which these energy sources “should” be used (and are) that are beneficial in every sense, the current large scale design has just one goal in mind: Get rich quick schemes on the backs of tax payers. And players from all sides have bellied up to the bar to drink that coolaid, regardless of their thoughts on AGW.
In the near future, wind towers and large scale solar panels will be used as prime examples of boondoggles.
Good for Canada. No matter what the purported purposes of the Kyoto Treaty, the details reveal it has little to do with limiting emissions.
I was most perplexed by the CBC interview with Mr. Kent. His statement was clearly that they were pushing for concrete accords and achievable targets for emission reductions….
Now that I read this, once again, politicians are not to be trusted. Just what is going on is unclear but certainly Mr. Harper is more beholden to the oil-patch than to the banksters so we may get out of Kyoto forthwith.
Will our governments ever get anything right?
I, too, have been very active in passing on reports and info that I have read on WUWT,[tnxAnthony].
I have been sending numerous e-mails and snail-mails to both the Federal Gov. and the Alberta Provincial Gov.
They have not completely stopped financing AGW projects yet, as both govenments announced $million to CCS progams.
It appears that with the recent Conservative Governments majority, that they will not be so reluctant to ease out of the AGW hoax.
What great news! Letters to the PM do make a difference, and of course WUWT’s contributors, and Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick and other delvers of the truth deserve a lion’s share of our thanks. But credit is also due to Canada’s National Post and especially the editors at its business and economics section Financial Post for championing the free exchange of ideas and revealing the solid basis of climate skepticism. Thanks ultimately to Conrad Black for founding the National Post and freeing Canadians from the stranglehold and excesses of politically-correct leftist journalism. Steven Harper can act as he does as he knows he is not alone in his skepticism, but is actually representing a large number of Canadians and with good scientific justification. (N.B. to the left-wing here at WUWT: this is not a jibe against the left, but against those of the left wedded to political correctness. This combination in Canada invented in the 1980s the PC excesses being currently experienced in the UK – one of our worst exports ever.)
I, too, have been sending numerous articles about the AGW hoax that
I have read on WUWT [thanks Anthony] by way of e-mails and snail-mails
to both the Can. Fed Gov. and the Alberta Prov. Gov.
They recently announced funding for CCS of several hundred millions of dollars.
WHY? They will not answer me.
Hopefully now that the Harper Gov. has a majority, they will ease out of the
scandalous AGW hoax once and for all [hopefully].
Most of Canada is cold 7 months of the year, and freezing about 4 months. If you really ask the people on the streets now, about half really hope global warming is real and that we can warm up a lot more.
Unfortunately, winters are still way too old here.
I always thought money spent fighting climate change was just like throwing a virgin into a volcano.
Wonderful. Now Environmentalists will have more sadistic pleasure than usual scapegoating Albertans for the world’s “global climate crisis.” We will be even more hated than we were before. All of this, despite the fact that all of those finger pointers could never live a day without their petroleum-derrived products.
I blame George W. Bush. Thank you, George!
“Alberta Slim says:
November 28, 2011 at 6:36 am
They recently announced funding for CCS of several hundred millions of dollars.
WHY? They will not answer me.”
The Alberta government funds CCS because the CO2 captured will be injected into old oil wells to boost production, thereby increasing royalties to the Alberta government.
CCS was sold as CO2 capture by the oil industry, so they could get paid to do something they would have otherwise had to pay for themselves.
Think about it. If the oil industry was to simply announce they were injecting CO2 underground, people would be up in arms, claiming that the practice was potentially dangerous. The CO2 could escape uncontrollably, and potentially lead to deaths.
However, under the banner of CCS, the oil industry can inject CO2 in massive quantities to boost oil production without fear of environmental backlash. If a disaster results, well it isn’t the fault of the oil industry. They were simply doing what environmental regulations told them to do.
Canada entered Kyoto largely because then Prime Minister Chretien was retiring under pressure and wanted to be remembered for Kyoto, not for the Shawinigan Scandal.
Similar to Gillard in Oz, Chretien came to power in Canada on a promise to repeal the much hated GST tax. Instead he expanded the tax under the banner of HST.
As I said several times over the past several months, Kyoto is dead. It died in Copenhagen, and there’s no post-2012 agreement.
And why is this happening now? One possible reason is that the bankrupt EU has irritated Canada one too many times. First, some of its contingents behaved rather spinelessly in the Libya operation. Canada’s air force had to carry out far more than its alloted mission quota thanks to one EU air force after another “red flagging” missions.
Second, the EU is trying to boycott Canadian oil exports. And in the process holding up free trade negotiations.
And since the only real purpose of Kyoto was to restrict North American economic growth to European levels, Canada, and PMSH in particular have finally said that enough is enough. Take your “money-sucking socialist schemes” elsewhere.
“vigilantfish says:
November 28, 2011 at 6:23 am
What great news! Letters to the PM do make a difference.”
I wrote PM Harper’s office when Climategate broke, pointing out the dangers that Cancun presented to Canada’s future prosperity and was pleasantly surprised to receive a reply.
It was one of the few times I felt a politician actually understood the issues beyond the effect they would have on their image and re-election .
Canada has slowly positioned itself slightly right of center. The wide swings left or right are a thing of the past and the Harper government is walking the tight rope slowly and carefully. Ditching to Kyoto Protocal was a no brainer but the ripples will be felt through out the world.
I hope the US can deal with it’s” carbon issues” in the years to come. Slow and sure wins the ball game.
Alberta and BC on the other hand has scrambled the impress the Media by putting in place unworkable carbon taxes and BS carbon capture plans. They need to tear a couple of pages out of Harpers play book.
Maybe some sense is coming in. I’m glad to be canadian. Not that I agree with everything our new government is doing. But I like this and scrapping the long gun registry. Now if they would finally get around to doing an elected senate and leave the Wheat board alone.
Also, everyone knows this CO2 mania is not “sustainable” in the long run. So it is a waiting game on one side and a “hurry up before we lose our chance” on the other.
Kent says ‘Kyoto is the past’ but refuses to confirm Canada’s withdrawal.
By The Canadian Press | November 28, 2011
OTTAWA – Environment Minister Peter Kent says he’s heading to climate talks in South Africa this week in search of a new agreement.
But Kent refused to say whether that also means Canada is formally set to withdraw from the international Kyoto Accord on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
“I’m neither confirming nor denying,” Kent told a news conference.
He insisted, however, that Canada will not make a second commitment to that accord.
“Kyoto is the past,” said the Conservative minister, while agreements made at more recent climate summits in Copenhagen and Cancun are the future.
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/59091–kent-says-kyoto-is-the-past-but-refuses-to-confirm-canada-s-withdrawal
The headline of the story gives the impression that Canada is now doing nothing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions . The Federal Government has introduced new draft regulations to phase out all coal fired electrical energy plants in Canada . This is far more than what is being done in many European countries and especially in Germany which is switching from nuclear to fossil fuel .
With this news and to support our Canadian economic Partner, my wife and I will go to Toronto this weekend for the Craft Show; spend some money. “Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
Jim D says:
November 27, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Now they can use their oil sands to become the next Saudi Arabia and benefit from a warmer world in the process. It makes perfect sense (for them).
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It makes perfect sense for everyone
Latitude says:
November 28, 2011 at 5:46 am
CFA, C3′s are better at sequestering CO2…..
…….under cooler temperature (90 degrees or less) regimes at higher latitudes. C4’s are better at higher temperatures (>90 degrees) in the lower latitudes.
This is just a modification of the game plan but it looks like there are plans for the
CONgame to continue. However it could also be a face saving measure as they start stepping back from the whole bloody mess. China and India and the other countries are not about to kill their industry as we have.klem says:
November 28, 2011 at 5:41 am
You are absolutely right. CBC will go bananas over this and bring out every environmentalist and doom and gloom. Global TV will be right in line with them too.
That is why I rarely believe anything they put up on TV anymore, you will only get a 1 side biased opinion.
Now, lets get our Alberta gov’t to shut down the CCS bs….