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Canada, US and Kyoto

Posted by michael on from the northern-exposure dept.

ambisinistral writes "The Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established under NAFTA to monitor North American environmental trends, has released their annual report. This article reports that Canadian polluters are doing worse than their U.S. counterparts. From the article, "Air pollutants released by Canadian industries rose 7 per cent from 1998 to 2000, while they fell by 8 per cent in the United States." This is of particular interest since Canada is a signatory member of the Kyoto accord. However, as this article reports, there are pressures inside Canada to withdraw from the Treaty."

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  1. Re:Hold up... by bofkentucky · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wish the hippies down here would let us build cleaner energy sources, but Nuke fission and Hydro plants are even more taboo than fossil fuel generation. I just wonder if they will protest the first fusion plant, the absolute cleanest source of energy we can hope to generate.

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  2. We Stink! by jo42 · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Our pollution index could be dropped drastically by taking offline a handful of polluters, starting with the Nanticoke coal powered power plant.

    If you aren't concerned with pollution, then you are part of the problem.

  3. Re:Hold up... by PD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nuclear power isn't that cheap because the plants are expensive to build and run. Wind power has fewer issues.

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