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It's Hard to Spray Goodbye Ontario enacts province-wide pesticide ban; fine print upsets greens		19 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 9:07 AM on 19 Jun 2008 The Canadian province of Ontario has just passed a pesticide ban that by next spring would prohibit the use of more than 80 ingredients and 300 pesticide products across the province. However, many greens and public-health advocates have decried the just-passed legislation, saying it could ultimately end up damaging public health. The major problem with the ban, criti ...
Topics: Canada, legislation, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Bisphenol, Eh? Health Canada primed to declare bisphenol A toxic		15 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:43 PM on 15 Apr 2008 Canada's health department is expected to become the first regulatory body ever to declare chemical bisphenol A a toxic substance that humans should reduce their exposure to. BPA shows up in (and leaches from) hard plastic water bottles, aluminum cans, and other containers that consumers regularly eat and drink from. The chemical, which has been linked to reproductive anomalies, has come under some ...
Topics: Canada, food, health, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

Other carbon tax shifts A quick survey of carbon taxes outside of Cascadia	Alan Durning	12 Mar 2008	Gristmill
British Columbia's bombshell announcement of a carbon tax shift last month made me want some context. Here's a rundown of other carbon taxes elsewhere in the world. As I noted, none of them is as consistent and comprehensive as B.C.'s, though some do have higher tax rates. In most cases, these levies came in tax shifts that reduced payroll taxes, business taxes, or other energy taxes. B.C.'s starts at $10.10 per metric ton of CO2 equivalent and rises in steps to $30.30 ...
Topics: British Columbia, Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Canadians Are So Cute When They're Mad Canadians fear U.S. energy bill clause could disallow oil-sands exports		11 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:17 PM on 11 Mar 2008 A clause in the recently passed U.S. energy bill could be interpreted to prevent the U.S. from sourcing fuel from Canada's oil sands, putting Canadian officials all in a tizzy. Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act prohibits the U.S. government from purchasing alternative fuels with higher lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions than conven ...
Topics: Canada, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, oil, oil sands, politics, United States (all these topics)

Canadian dispatch New Canadian budget supports dirty energy industries, disses renewables	John McGrath	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
More than a year ago, I wrote about Stephane Dion's election as Liberal leader, and was guardedly optimistic about what it meant for Canadian environmentalists. Let's just say that the last year has been pretty disappointing. The latest came yesterday, after the Conservative government announced a budget that shovelled hundreds of millions of dollars toward fossil fuels and nuclear power. Dion has said his party will support the budget and not trigger an election. ...
Topics: Canada, energy, politics (all these topics)

Catch Us If You Canada Canada announces new fuel-economy regs to match or exceed U.S. standards		17 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:41 AM on 17 Jan 2008 At the Montreal International Auto Show, Canada's transport minister announced the country will be setting new fuel-economy regulations that will match or exceed the U.S. fuel-economy standards signed into law in late December. The Canadian standards will be phased in starting in 2011 and by 2020, cars and light trucks sold in the Great White North will have to averag ...
Topics: Canada, cars, climate, news, politics (all these topics)

Myth me? Alberta premier heads to D.C. to preach the virtues of tar sands	David Roberts	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Kevin Grandia has the skinny on Alberta (it's in Canada) Premier Ed Stelmach's visit to D.C. to shill for tar sands and to fight "the myth that the environmental cost of the oilsands is too high." Below is Stelmach with a very perspicacious polar bear:
Topics: politics, oil, energy, Canada, Alberta (all these topics)

Tax On, Tax Off Canadian government rejects panel's advice to implement carbon tax		08 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:02 PM on 08 Jan 2008 Regarding an expert panel's solicited advice that Canada strongly consider implementing a carbon tax: The Conservative government is just not that into it. From the Archives To Have and to Put on Hold. EPA launches cell-phone recycling campaign. Mission of Mars. Reclusive candy billionaire opposes drilling near his Montana land. Let Your Commission Be You ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Canuck the Trend Canada should consider adopting carbon tax, says panel		07 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:53 PM on 07 Jan 2008 Canada should strongly consider adopting a carbon tax along with an emissions cap-and-trade system, a panel of experts advised the government today. The panel had been asked for advice on how Canada could meet its goal of reducing emissions by 45 to 65 percent of 2003 levels by 2050. Environment Minister John Baird put the kibosh on a country-wide carbon tax last year, but the province of Qu ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, news, politics (all these topics)

Bags of coal given as party favors Fossil Awards shame obstructionist delegates at Bali talks	Youth Movement	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
You may have heard about the Fossil Awards given at the United Nations Bali climate negotiations. A collaboration between a number of youth delegations and Avaaz.org, the awards are given to nations whose delegates have obstructed progress during the course of the talks. Here's a first-hand account of the first daily Fossil Awards ceremony, when Canada won the infamous prize. Yesterday, Japan managed to win first, second, and third place for threatening to pull out of ...
Topics: Bali 07, Canada, climate, energy, international politics, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, politics (all these topics)

So, Um, He Didn't Like Them? Canadian government's eco-strategies not working, says audit		31 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:44 PM on 31 Oct 2007 Sustainable development strategies introduced regularly by the Canadian government since the mid-1990s have largely failed to produce results, according to a new audit. A report by Environment Commissioner Ron Thompson notes that officials seem to just go through the motions, that there is no accountability, and that there has been no provision of "baselines or targets ...
Topics: Canada, news, politics (all these topics)

Woo-hoo, caribou! How chainsaw toting underwear models helped save America's most endangered large mammal	Glenn Hurowitz	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The world's 1,700 mountain caribou can chomp their lichens in peace -- Forest Ethics and a coalition of Canadian environmental groups announced an agreement with the British Columbia government to protect more than 5 million acres of their home habitat in British Columbia's forests. The victory came after a five-year campaign targeting corporations and the regional government that either logged mountain caribou habitat or used paper from the mountainous, old gro ...
Topics: Canada, endangered species, grassroots activism, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Quebec and Call Quebec introduces carbon tax		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 4:13 PM on 02 Oct 2007 Determined not to let British Columbia hog the green spotlight, the province of Quebec has introduced Canada's first carbon tax. The tax, to be levied on gasoline, diesel, heating oil, and coal, is expected to raise $200 million a year to fund the province's emissions-reduction plans. Apparently Quebec never got the memo that taxes are communist plots developed by the French ... hey, wait a minute! source:� Reuters, A ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Be careful what you wish for Conservative candidate in Ontario will expand nuclear power industry, if elected	John McGrath	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Me, a month ago: What the Ontario election needs is for the parties to talk more about energy issues! Me, a few days ago: Crud. Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory said Saturday that environmental approval for energy projects is operating at a snail's pace, and if his party comes to power, he will revitalize the province's nuclear sector. I would so love for the expansion of nuclear power to not be the one point of agreement between the two biggest par ...
Topics: Canada, elections, energy, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact Yesterday, the leaders of six Western states and two Canadian provinces agreed to their own regional climate pact, aiming to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The Western Climate Initiative ...
Topics: Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Bowled Over Mayors of 29 Great Lakes cities vow to cut water consumption		13 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Bowled Over Mayors of 29 Great Lakes cities vow to cut water consumption What's a Friday without some toilet talk? The mayors of 29 Canadian and U.S. cities in the Great Lakes region have agreed to cut water consumption 15 percent from 2000 levels by 2015, and one of their solutions is banning inefficient potties. "We need provincial legislation about low-flow toi ...
Topics: Canada, local politics, news, politics, United States, urban planning, water crisis (all these topics)

Ceci n'est pas une carbon tax Color me unimpressed	Eric de Place	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
You can color me unimpressed by the big news today in the Globe and Mail: Quebec just became the first Canadian province to pass a carbon tax. For one thing, the tax is tiny, just 0.8 cents per liter of gasoline, and at comparably low levels on natural gas and diesel. (For non-metricized Americans, that's 3 cents per gallon.) So that makes Quebec's new approach not quite as aggressive as -- to pick just one example at random -- Idaho's 5 cent per gallon increase circa ...
Topics: Canada, carbon tax, climate, climate change mitigation, politics (all these topics)

Laboratories of democracy Oh, Canada	John McGrath	11 May 2007	Gristmill
So, it's an interesting time to be an environmentalist in Canada. On one hand, we have a federal government whose green policies were described as 'a complete and total fraud ... designed to mislead the Canadian people' by no less than the Goreacle himself. In this case, however, one of the sometimes-maddening aspects of Canadian politics is of some benefit. You see, natural resources (including all energy sources) are matters of provincial jurisdiction in Canad ...
Topics: Canada, energy, environmental movement, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Excuse Us While We Pick Our Jaws Up Off the Floor Canadian bureaucrat fights charges over leaked climate document		11 May 2007	Daily Grist
Excuse Us While We Pick Our Jaws Up Off the Floor Canadian bureaucrat fights charges over leaked climate document This week's hottest eco-scandal comes from Canada. For real! Where else would Mounties descend on a federal office to arrest an anarchist-leaning, punk-drumming bureaucrat for allegedly leaking a climate document to activists and the press? We swear on our stack of Celine CDs: this happened Wedn ...
Topics: Canada, climate, dirty hippies, news, politics (all these topics)

Because you can't get enough Canadian politics Neither can we	John McGrath	29 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I mentioned in a previous post that Canadians might be facing an election soon over the Conservative government's budget. That turned out not to happen (all three opposition parties had to oppose it, and only two did). Instead, something much more interesting may happen: The three opposition parties have finalized their much-improved version of a Clean Air Act, with hard targets on CO2 emissions and penalties for those who don't make the necessary cuts. This leaves t ...
Topics: Canada, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Alice in ethanol-land Edwards, Canada, and now South Africa	Ron Steenblik	21 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Former Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) -- now a presidential hopeful -- has just published his latest energy plan. One important plank of that plan foresees the nation producing (not just consuming, which would allow for imports) 65 billion gallons a year of ethanol by 2025. ('I'll meet your bid for 2030, Barack, and raise it by five billion!') If the 51 cents a gallon volumetric ethanol excise tax credit (VEETC) is extended beyond the end of 2010 -- as most commentat ...
Topics: biofuels, Canada, elections, energy, ethanol, John Edwards, politics, South Africa (all these topics)

The Neverending Tory Canada's leaders bring back green program, announce rainforest fund		23 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
The Neverending Tory Canada's leaders bring back green program, announce rainforest fund When Canada's Conservative Party took power a year ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper put a variety of environmental programs on hold -- only to find out that, oops, his constituents actually want a livable earth. Under pressure from citizens Canuck, Harper's cabinet is hyping green initiatives both new and recyc ...
Topics: Canada, news, politics, rainforests, renewable energy (all these topics)

When the Can Comes Around Canada replaces environment minister, pledges to get greener		05 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
When the Can Comes Around Canada replaces environment minister, pledges to get greener As part of a major cabinet shakeup, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has replaced oft-criticized Environment Minister Rona Ambrose with former Treasury Board head John Baird, acknowledging that his government needs to greenify. "We've clearly determined we need to do more on the environment," Harper said. "Particularly when it ...
Topics: Canada, news, politics (all these topics)

Selecting Dion Environmental advocate elected leader of Canada's Liberal Party		05 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Selecting Dion Environmental advocate elected leader of Canada's Liberal Party We bring you news from a faraway land called "Canada" (pronounced Can-uh-duh). Reports translated from Canadian reveal that the country's out-of-power Liberal Party has elected as its new leader the greener-than-green Stephane Dion, an academic-turned-politician who served most recently as Canada's Environment Minister. Dion's victory was what h ...
Topics: Canada, news, politics (all these topics)

Six Nations, Under Siege Native Canadians fight for land rights		18 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Six Nations, Under Siege Native Canadians fight for land rights Suburban sprawl has encroached on the once-pristine wilderness of southern Ontario's Six Nations Reserve -- and the residents of Canada's First Nations that live there have had enough. Since February, hundreds of Native protestors have blocked roads, lit bonfires, confronted police, raised traditional First Nation flags, destroyed national flags ...
Topics: Canada, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics)

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