Ontario has joined the Western Climate Initiative, a regional carbon-trading agreement with a goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The province joins seven U.S. states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and three Canadian counterparts (British Columbia, Manitoba, and Quebec). For those folks not up on their Canadian know-how (so, all Americans): Ontario is Canada's most populous province; with its participation, the WCI represents two-thirds of Canada's population and an impressive 73 percent of its GDP. The WCI and other regional agreements in the Midwest and Northeast were spurred by frustration with a lack of federal action on climate change; similarly, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty explained that Canada's global-warming policy "doesn't satisfy all Canadians, so we see provinces making their own efforts to assume their responsibilities as global citizens."
source: Reuters, Associated Press, Canadian Press, Sightline Daily
”>Ontario protects boreal forest and bans pesticides
see also, in Gristmill: What’s wrong with the WCI?, What’s right with the WCI?
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earlysnows Posted 3:15 am
20 Jul 2008
ontario and wci
the train is picking up speed...way to go dalton.
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MightyAC Posted 4:16 am
21 Jul 2008
Harpo is killing Canada
Canada's Prime Minister (Stephen Harper) is ultra conservative and completely in the pocket of western oil co's...so basically Dubya Jr. Dalton McGuinty and any other provincial leader have no choice but to battle emissions on their own as the federal idiot in charge opposes any environmental initiative.
Way to go Dalton and it's about time for Stephane Dion. Oh and Gore for God..
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