More at BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16151310
UPI says:
The cost of meeting Canada’s obligations under Kyoto would be $13.6 billion, Kent said.
“That’s $1,600 from every Canadian family — that’s the Kyoto cost to Canadians, that was the legacy of an incompetent liberal government,” the Conservative minister said.
At the Toronto Sun:
Over the weekend, the 195 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change finished a record-breaking, marathon session two days behind schedule in Durban, and charted a course toward a new regime to be finalized by 2015 in an effort to stave off dangerous human interference with the atmosphere.
The framework agreement salvaged the Kyoto Protocol, but it became clear that it would not include Canada’s participation.
Before he returned to Canada, Kent told reporters that the government was justified in its action.
“We want to avoid another Kyoto-like pact at all costs,” said Kent at the summit in South Africa. “Kyoto was not effective and was not good for Canada. The previous government should not have ratified it.”
Canada’ s Prime Minister shows clear leadership and principles.
I feel so sorry for the rest of the G8, with a bunch bed-wetters for leaders.
Go Stephen Harper!
Canada! The new, shimmering, brilliant North Star!
misterjohnqpublic says:
December 12, 2011 at 5:13 pm
I’ll say it again … Oh, Canada!
The government is going to take a beating for this, but it is the strongest move I’ve seen come from a government in years. Small population, but huge guts and large brains!
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The huge gut is from all the beer. A Kokanee anyone? I got 5 in the fridge!
The old Kyoto treaty required 55% of emissions to be ratified. Do they still have that much?
Then the remaining Kyoto-freaks are:
EU (UK and Germany only?), Norway, Oz, and NZ. Am I right?
NZ not so much now. The government is an agriculture-friendly Tory outfit, with no natural Green support. They talk like they mean it, but we all know they don’t.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/93457/green-groups-criticise-nz-role-in-climate-change-talks
Our Emissions Trading Scheme has yet to have any economic effect, with transitional procedures still underway and our biggest so-call emitter – agriculture – still excluded.
http://www.climatechange.govt.nz/emissions-trading-scheme/ets-review-2011/review-report.pdf
Apart from slapping coal, which we barely use, the ETS has had little effect. And is years off having an effect.
Here’s my prediction. The present NZ government will do nothing for three years. Should they win the next election, they will slowly dismantle the ETS. Unless we can find an overseas market for our carbon sink forests. Yes, we know commercial forestry is not a carbon sink, but we desperately need the foreign currency!
If the Labour party wins in three years, and are beholden to the Greens, then we might see some bite in the ETS. Maybe.
Now if we can just get our goverment to investigate the massive fraud that got us into this mess in the first place. This is a great first step toward sanity but the eco-nazi types cannot go unpunished, their attack on our country has cost us and still costs us plenty. Environment Canada is full of zealots, read their website; “Environment Canada’s Science” is a key phrase.Incompetence of this magnitude cannot be ingored.
“incompetent liberal government”
That pretty much sums it up. Go Canada!
China, the world’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, has also refused to take on new targets in the near future, arguing that it wants to see more developed countries act first and honour their commitments.
The Kyoto Protocol not only set binding targets on its members, but it also established mechanisms for an international market promoting clean energy development and innovation.
But Kent has criticized it for treating emerging economies such as India, China and Brazil as poorer countries, suggesting that they are unfairly benefiting from targets imposed on countries including Canada. http://www.canada.com/business/Canada+formally+withdraw+from+Kyoto+accord+Kent/5848549/story.html#ixzz1gMofGfRS
Let alone pay to be managed and run by the UN. From Draft decision -/CP.17 Programme budget for the biennium 20122013 down in Durban. http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/durban_nov_2011/decisions/application/pdf/cop17_budget.pdf
Annex
Indicative scale of contributions from Parties to the Convention for the biennium 2012-2013
Party UN scale of assessments for 2012 UNFCCC adjusted scale 2012 UNFCCC adjusted scale 2013
Canada 3.207 3.127 3.127
China 3.189 3.109 3.109
Oh, and
United States of America 22.000 21.449 21.449
Besides not working anyways, Kyoto was totally unfair to countries like Canada with huge immigration.
william wallace,
Your head is already firmly inserted in a warm, cozy place reputed to be a global warming offender.
Wonderful news to this Canadian.Let us hope that this step back from the abyss will be but the first of many.Eliminating all solar/wind subsidies would be a nice second step,followed by a reversal of the light bulb ban.I’d also like a pony and a back rub.
Announcements like this demonstrate that in a world of followers, there are some who will do justice to their position and actually lead. This was ballsy, lets hope this was the tipping point for other ‘leaders’ and they follow Harper’s courageous lead. And no my American friends he’s ours and you cannot have him, FTA or not!
Just so you all know…. I am beside myself giddy about this.
This is huge news. Here is why. All of the provinces and municipalities have relentlessly invoked the Kyoto accord as an excuse to enact policies at the more local level. The municipality where I live bought hybrid buses, put up windmills to power the water supply out of the water budget….drove up power rates because the socialist provincial government legislated lower CO2 emissions… and on and on….
This is a sledgehammer to thump the greenies with. Lets begin the thumping.!!!
This feels sooooo good.
Can someone please tell me what Canadians will pay to get out of Kyoto??
Kent’s use the term ‘would be’ is ambiguous.
JEM says:
December 12, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Now admittedly it’s dangerous to suggest things like this based on the relative health and success of one government, but pretty much since Harper got a majority government I’ve been thinking the right strategy for the US might be an ‘elephant that roared’ – invade Canada, then capitulate.
Careful JEM the last time the US tried invading Canada it didn’t work out so well, just having fun.
Now if we can get the Canadian province British Columbia home of Suzuki and Weaver to drop the idiot carbon tax.
Couldn’t Canada set up the first independent climate gate investigation by themselves ?
Surely, they have the right capacity, skills and background knowledge in their own country.
This would be a real service to the world.
Yes Indeedy. A proud day for CANADA!!! YAY US!
Now when will the USA follow and start to ditch this nonsense!
Next Battle — the European Carbon Tax on Air Travel.
davidmhoffer / Your a good soul. Your spiritual record be / above the norm
thus my words dd not take you into account/ your having working brain cells.
To give some understanding each life one embarks upon the individual adds
any spiritual development in understanding as in experience in making / unto
their Spiritual Account. Ones spiritual account is carried from life to life it can’t
be lost or stolen it is the property of the individual. What being the purpose of
a spiritual account?. Through ones growing spiritual understanding experience
one in time reaches (enligtenment). It only while in a human frame one making
spiritual development // thus its important a life not wasted / but its used wisely.
There always spiritual teachers (I mean spiritual teachers not religious) among
spiritual teachers be the Teacher of teachers the present Teacher of Teachers
is Prem Rawat. On pc search put (words of peace) on site a selection of videos
in which Prem Rawat talks explains of meditation // in turning the senses inwards
in doing so bringing an unfolding of the spiritual self. Not ideas / Not beliefs / but
very practical spiritual experience giving an clarity that all quesions be answered.
I hope such above information goes a way in your forgivness if I having offended.
I give congratulations upon your advanced state of spiritual develoment as your
development in understanding. Your close where meditation in being your future
stage to embark upon //and that will be a testing time as of very rewarding times.
tokyoboy says:
December 12, 2011 at 3:57 pm
“Then the remaining Kyoto-freaks are:
EU (UK and Germany only?), Norway, Oz, and NZ. Am I right?”
Plus Switzerland, which is not a EU member. They have even incorporated the AGW doomsday story into their school curriculum to brainwash the kinder. Of course, all those UN offices and hacks there don’t help and, probably more importantly, Geneva is one of two sites (along with Bonn) where the ‘management’ of proposed $100 billion/year Green Slush Fund will be done. Almost right next door to World Bankster Central, which is soooo convenient.
Oh Canada!
We love you Hosers, Eh?!!! Thanks a Bunch, Canadians! Now, if the US of A can only grow a fiscally conservative President with a spine and a pair… and a Congress with individual IQs somewhat above room temperature!
MtK
RiHo08 says:
December 12, 2011 at 6:49 pm
As one who scrutinizes his Ontario One’s electric bill, I see that I am paying to: 1) decommission the Bruce Nuclear power plant at Point Douglas; and, 2) at the very same time, recommission the Bruce Nuclear power plant at Point Douglas.
This Ontario One electric bill, is in reference to a left leaning/green wacky Provincial Liberal government. NOT the Federal Conservatives, who are heroes. and the Alberta oil comes from oil sands not the greens favorite term Tar sands
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As you see we still have lots of green watermelons in positions of power in Canada unfortunately, they just don;t know were their bread is buttered!
And RiHo08 is right: Don’t trust the Greens under any circumstance.
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Don Simpson says:
December 12, 2011 at 6:58 pm
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/12/question-of-the-day-498.html
Go to this link and vote to say you think this was the right move for Canada, even though it is an AGW outlet at the CBC it never hurts to show your support for the right move.
Yes Please do and enter the poll it’s as easy as a click, the CBC is full of Eco fanatics and socialist and stone around Canada’s neck spouting the UN IPPC /David Suzuki /AL Bore Line
As much as Harper backstabbed us with regard to the Income Trust issue, he kept his word to pull out of Kyoto. 1-1.
Of course the Thomson Reuters media voices its displeasure.
The Globe and Mail has had a clear bias in reporting the issue of Climate Change: only alarmist stories handpicked from AP or Canadian Press, written by known journalist/activists such as Seth Borenstein or Bob Weber have been fed to the readership and all their so called experts writing about it are involved in propagating the IPCC dogmas.
Political pundits like Jeffrey Simpson, political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon who explained to us how warm creates cold winters, parroting Overland from NOAA without basic meteorological knowledge, Don Tapscott, the techno-guru or Andrew Weaver, one of Canada’s IPCC representative NDP supporter.
It took the Globe two weeks to report about “Climategate 1” and 10 days for some opinion piece by Margaret Wente to report about “Climategate 2”. CTV Globemedia belongs to the Thomson Reuters group owned by the Thomson family the richest in Canada. Woodbridge is the $15 billion investment arm, and among the Thomson Reuters Foundation trustees, is Sir Crispin Tickell.
His biography stipulates that “Sir Crispin’s close relationship with the Climate Institute began in June 1988 when he was the luncheon speaker at a climate change symposium organized by the Climate Institute for UN Missions under auspices of UNEP.”… “With Sir Crispin as Chairman and under auspices of the IPCC and UNEP, the Institute held Presidential and Ministerial briefings on climate change in 22 nations, the first in Mexico at Los Pinos in March 1991.”
http://www.trust.org/learn-more-about-us/trustees/
Tickell also helped the chief propagandist journalist from the Guardian, Monbiot obtain Fellowship of Green College in the UK. He knew well the UN since he was former UK ambassador to the United Nations. Thus Tickell was an insider very early on.
A search showed 14 emails where the name Crispin Tickell is mentioned. “Climategate 2” is offering a glimpse of Sir Crispin’s early activity.
One can easily imagine that with a Trustee of such green pedigree looking over the Thomsons $15 billion investments, it is unlikely that their principal newspaper, The Globe and Mail or their Television channels CTV, BNN would promote anything but the IPCC line. Jeremy Rifkin’s recent interview on BNN was an example of such open propaganda. So much for objectivity, so much for integrity in revealing what amounts to potential conflicts of interests in a major issue. The Durban coverage was no exception.
RiHo08
I also pay… $5 Cdn (per month for windmills) that stood idle (11 windmills turning out of 500+ Sarnia to Tobermory) during this summer’s heat when the wind didn’t blow>>>
You might say that sucks….
To my very close Northern Neighbors.
WEll done ole chaps.
This may be one of the reasons they decided to withdraw.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02626667.2010.513518
Yo! Canada.