NAMI News
The latest trinational news.Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Ontario rolls dice on carbon.
National Post, July 22, 2008 - “To California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s delight, Ontario joined the Western Climate Initiative last week. One wonders if Canada’s flagship province, along with the governments of Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia that have already signed on to the California-led pact, are prepared to accept the potential consequences: Gasoline shortages in their markets, while growing supplies of Canadian crude from the oil sands are shipped by bullet line to Texas. That could happen under the alliance, in which a key plank is a low-carbon fuel standard that will require a 10% cut to the carbon-intensity of transportation fuels by 2020.” Read more.
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