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But hydro and nuclear energy isn't "green energy" like wind power is. Hyrdo is renewable but not "green". It involves the flooding of rivers/valleys/communities and destroys eco-systems. Nuclear is renewable but not "green energy" either. It prodcues hundreds of litres of waste a year.
Hydro created by waterfalls rather than vast flooded areas is definitely renewable and less environmentally damaging than gas power plants, oil power plants, and coal power plants and it is definitely less damaging than taking a huge area of Alberta wilderness and turning it upside down to get oil out of the dirt which will be used as a non-renewable and non-green power source elsewhere. Most hydro projects in Ontario are not Quebec style James Bay projects. Nuclear power is also cleaner than gas, oil, and coal in that there is no air or liquid pollution since it is self contained. If the government would get off its butt and take spent fuel rods and deprocess them (i.e. the opposite process to the purification of Uranium Ore into Uranium) creating a less harmful substance than they originally started with and put it back into the ground where they got it from the waste would be near zero. It isn't as good as solar or wind which are renewable but it is better than any Alberta pro-oil or pro-gas plan. If we are taking about reducing air pollution Ontario will be far ahead of Alberta in terms of meeting Kyoto targets when McGuinty powers of the coal fired plants before this decade is out.
Well the current one is one built for every developed country in the world and assumes they're all the same. I know, and I think everyone here will tell you too, that Canada, Russia, the UK, Germany, Iceland, and every other country that signed on is completly different. Not only in population, but in terms of the industries that they rely on.
Yes, the countries are all different and the targets are based on where each country was in 1990 and a reduction based on a percentage. Therefore the type of country Canada is (i.e. resource sector and manufacturing in a cold winter and hot summer climate) would be related to the greenhouse emissions Canada had in 1990 and a percentage reduction would be fair in most ways except immigration.
The Ontario and Federal Liberals are giving huge incentives and tax breaks to car companies that locate plants in the province.
I agree That is why the Green party is completely against that and that is why I am voting for them rather than the Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP. Auto sector and oil sector are the last sectors that should get government support (I don't think businesses including farms or fishermen should get any support other than loans). Do you think Harper will penalize the oil sector being from Alberta?
Ontario will turn off coal fired power plants in the next few years. Ontario is rushing to do its part in meeting Kyoto targets with a number of wind farm projects proceeding. Why are we bailing out on Kyoto now? Why take the pressure off? If we don't make the target after giving it a full effort then so be it but why quit without trying?