Canada can't be too far behind. At the U.N. framework conference in Rio,
we agreed to reduce to 1990 levels by the year 2000, and last year the
government announced that we are going to miss that target by 8%.
Recently, our Minister of Natural Resources, Anne MacLelland, who hails
from the Alberta oil patch, refused to even put the topic of a carbon
tax on the table for discussion, after heavy industry lobbying efforts.
At the U.N. conference in Rio, George Bush had to be practically hit
over the head with a baseball bat in order to agree to ANY target at all
- wonder when these guys are going to get serious.
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Norbert Senf email: mheat@mha-net.org
Masonry Stove Builders mheat@hookup.net
RR 5, Shawville website: http://mha-net.org/msb
Quebec J0X 2Y0 fax: 819.647.6082
voice: 819.647.5092
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