Kyoto & Conservative Party has NOT altered its Policy on Kyoto

Conservative Party has NOT altered its Policy on Kyoto

That we did so was wrongly reported.

The following letter has been sent to several media outlets today in response to reports of a change in the Conservative Party's position on Kyoto.
April 14, 2005

Dear Editor,

Your article of April 14 gives the mistaken impression that the Conservative Party supports the Kyoto Accord. The Conservative Party does not support the Kyoto Accord. Canada’s emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Accord are unattainable, and the Liberal government’s plan comes nowhere close to reaching them. The Conservative Party will have a made-in-Canada environmental policy that will set out our own targets and our own timelines for eliminating smog and bringing cleaner air to Canada.

Bob Mills, M.P.
Official Opposition Critic for the Environment

Kyoto Plan Backgrounder

· The latest Climate Change “Plan” is nothing but an expensive half measure designed to make it look like the Liberals are doing something in the face of rising CO2 levels.
· By regulating CO2 in CEPA the Liberals are creating the potential for a backdoor carbon tax
· The “plan” will hit regular Canadians very hard in the pocketbook. They will be saddled with higher electricity rates, heating costs, and gasoline prices.
· This “plan” encourages sending billions of Canadian tax dollars offshore for projects which will have almost no oversight, and will not improve our environment here at home.
· No indication is given as to how the Liberals are going to come up with the 10-12 billion dollars this “plan” will cost.
· Some of the components of the “plan” are straight from our policy platform and merit consideration.

§ Working in cooperation with the provinces and industry
§ CO2 capture and sequestration
§ Clean coal technology
§ Use of agricultural and forestry sinks
§ Tax incentives for alternate energy

· This “plan” proves the government cannot and will not comply with their own Kyoto targets. This plan is vaguer than their 2002 “plan”.
· A Conservative government would initiate a plan which would clean up our air, water and land. Furthermore we would promote energy conservation, transitional fuels and alternate energy.




Kyoto Madness Terence Corcoran, Financial Post, April 14, 2005

There's nothing new in the Liberal Kyoto Plan released yesterday, but it's still a startling eye-opener. We all knew there would be a $1-billion Climate Fund and a Partnership Fund and a $200-million Wind Power Production Incentive and a slew of other programs, initiatives and regulations. What we couldn't appreciate, until it was all assembled yesterday in a single monster document, is the mind-blowing madness behind Kyoto. Only by looking at the whole plan, half-baked though it is, does this mass exercise in collective insanity become clear.

[. . . . ] Also wrapped into the plan is a summary of how Ottawa plans to approach the post-Kyoto period, beginning in 2012. This is also old news, but to see it there in print is more than a little disconcerting. The post-Kyoto plan has been assigned to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, an "independent" agency stacked with prime ministerial appointments, including a new chairman, former Winnipeg mayor Glenn Murray. Also fresh to the Round Table are an assortment of mushy corporate types, including Robert Schad, green founder of Husky Injection Molding, and Audrey McLaughlin, former NDP leader.

Who these people are is less important than what they are to do. [. . . . ]

The more I read Corcoran, the more I like his work. The devil is in the details. Check the in between stuff.





In Reply to: Re: $10 Billion Madness posted by Lou Posted by Gerry, C.A. on 06:01:08 2005/04/15

The Liberals told us . . . . Kyoto has the potential to bankrupt Canada in exchange for nothing other than boosting the internationalist stature and bank accounts of the usual suspects. [. . . . ]

Re: Ottawa's $10-billion Kyoto flop, April 14, 2005

Kyoto plan decried as vague, goals unattainable -- 'If everybody is unhappy, I am happy': Emerson Paul Vieira, Financial Post, April 14, 2005

OTTAWA - Business groups say the much-anticipated Kyoto plan, unveiled yesterday, is vague, threatens competitiveness and contemplates far more spending than anticipated on meeting targets they say are unattainable.

The Kyoto strategy, titled Project Green, is a $10-billion framework that sets out targets to be met through the regulation of large industrial companies and investments in environmentally friendly technology or infrastructure.

The price tag is double the amount set aside in the 2005-06 budget. [. . . . ]