Thursday, June 28, 2012

On oil sands, Ottawa's not hearing what Alberta's saying

Tyee: On Sept. 11, 2009, Stephen Harper's then-environment minister Jim Prentice called on his counterpart in Alberta, Rob Renner, and then-premier Ed Stelmach. Prentice intended to pitch the province on the federal government's plan to control Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. It wasn't going to be an easy sell. Ottawa planned to place clear limits on Canada's carbon emissions. Companies unable to meet those limits would need to buy credits from companies that exceeded their requirements. This...

URL: http://thetyee.ca/News/2012/06/27/Ottawa-Alberta-Oil-Sands-Policy/

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