Last week many legal experts stated that aboriginals who oppose the Northern Gateway Project linking the Alberta oilsands to BC’s Northern coast don’t likely have the power to veto it, although Gordon Christie, a law professor at UBC asserted, “first nations along the route do have powerful claims that just might prevent the state from [...]
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About 10 years ago, I went to Future Shop to buy a new computer monitor. I eventually ended up with an Acer LCD – one which I am extremely happy with to this day. However, I wasn’t too thrilled at the checkout line when I was told I would need to shell out another $12 [...]
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Immediately following Obama’s official thumbs down on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline proposal, media, businesspeople, politicians and the public on both sides of the political coin began sounding off about the rights and wrongs and pros and cons of the decision. As a Greener Ideal reader I can take a swing in the dark at the [...]
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Plastic shopping bags are progressively being banned around the world. In Britain, the plastic bag is symbolically viewed as actions of a “throw away society.” Even China, who is consistently fingered as one of the world’s two worst polluters, has placed a ban on them. But there are no such widespread bans in either Canada [...]
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One headline stands out among others balking at Harper’s bold move pulling Canada out of the international Kyoto Protocol: “B.C. responds to Kyoto withdrawal with a shrug” (The Globe & Mail, Dec. 14) A shrug? Amidst all the clenched fists and raised neck veins coast to coast– this indifferent, non-vexed gesture? Canadians everywhere are shaming [...]
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Whether we like it or not, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s intention to withdraw Canada from the next round of Kyoto is the right decision. For us to try to curb our green house emissions to 6% below 1990 level is a far too ambitious goal, especially in light of our ongoing oil production in Alberta. [...]
Read more →Recently, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environmental Programme, Achim Steiner, came to Ontario to discuss his department’s ground-breaking report, “Towards a Green Economy“, that dispels the the fundamental fallacy plaguing Economic policy: that the economy and the environment are at loggerheads, if we want gains in one, we sacrifice loss in the other. [...]
Read more →Today, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak announced he is strongly opposing Ontario’s existing Green Energy Program, thought by many to be one of the best renewable energy policies in North America. If elected, Hudak says he will cancel the program altogether. Ontario’s Green Energy Program For several years, Ontario’s Green Energy Act has offered [...]
Read more →The beautiful city of Victoria, British Columbia announced today it will be saving over $750,000 through the implementation of a new energy efficiency program implemented in conjunction with Chevron Energy Solutions. Victoria saving a ton of energy Over the next 10 to 15 years, the city of Victoria, B.C. will be cutting its energy consumption [...]
Read more →This week marks the 16th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP16), currently taking place in Cancun, Mexico. This year’s conference has seen world leaders follow up on decisions made (or avoided) at last year’s Copenhagen summit, and once again try to come to an agreement on what can be done on an international level [...]
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