The upcoming Auditor-General's report is expected to be scathing in its assessment of the former Liberal government programs, but this should be no surprise to anyone.
Back in 2003 no less than David Suzuki was warning about the bizarre junk science boondoggles being funded:
Is pig iron the way to a better planet? The Canadian government apparently seems to think so. It's funding a bizarre project in Brazil to plant vast farms of eucalyptus trees, which will eventually be made into charcoal to produce pig iron - a low grade iron. Somehow along the way, this is supposed to slow global warming.When David Suzuki is complaining about useless money wasting government programs you can be sure it will be a target rich environment indeed for the Auditor-General.
But would you believe Kyoto would end up subsidizing the Saudi oil industry, bringing depleted oil fields back to production?
If all you knew about Kyoto was that it was somehow supposed to reduce fossil fuel emissions you'd likely think the Saudis would be rather cool to the idea, being the world's largest oil exporter and all. But you'd be wrong, the Kingdom sees Kyoto as a big opportunity to cash in.
Being astute observers they don't really expect the world to wean itself from their oil, and they are positioning themselves to planning to cash in under the Clean Development Mechanism:
The Clean Development Mechanism is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialized countries with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment (so-called Annex 1 countries) to invest in emission-reducing projects in developing countries as an alternative to what is generally considered more costly emission reductions in their own countries.This means that Annex 1 countries can invest in the reduction of emissions in the Kingdom to meet their own Kyoto commitments. For the Kingdom it means a potential to receive foreign investment in its industrial sector, most notably in oil extraction and power generation
In particular, they figure western countries that can't meet their own commitments will fund projects in developing countries that supposedly reduce emissions. But like David Suzuki's example of bizarre pig iron projects that do nothing to reduce emissions, the Saudis actually contemplate having Kyoto handouts fund increasing oil production.
That's right. Depleted oil fields that have otherwise stopped economically producing can extend their life with costly enhanced recovery techniques. If you can get paid to inject CO2 into depleted oil wells this can return some of these depleted wells to production. And they plan on doing just that.
So if you think subsidizing Saudi oil production is a good idea, Kyoto's just the deal for you.
For those looking for a well-written and concisely-reasoned article that makes the case that global warming, real or not, is not caused to any significant extent by man, your search has ended:
http://www.caranddriver.com/columns/11408/an-inconvenient-truth-sos-from-al-gore.html
The earth's atmoshpere has been warming for well over ten thousand years, since the beginning of the decline of the last ice age.
Kyoto was spawned from the "Earth Summit" held in Brazil, which happened before Maurice Strong was fingered in the "Oil for Food Scandal". MS is the (brains?) behind Kyoto, P.E.T., Martin Sr. and Jr. and myriad wasteful program spending since the days of Lester Pearson up until MS lost his job at the U.N. Lie-beral's and Dhimmi's have to be the snake oil salesman's dream. Gullible? Yahha!
Way back they had the little ice age then in the 1970s they were talking of a new ice age and the comming great freeze but now its this global warming poppycock comming from radicals who want to control the wat we live the whole idea of global warming is a lie and the U.S. Senate has refused to ratifi the kyoto treaty its time to see that the biggist amount of HOT AIR comes from AL GORE and the wackos at GREENPEACE
Bruce I agree. Whenever I read about or see the result of glacial movement, I have to ask the 'global warming' folks - "Um, what happened to them thar big ole ice thingys that scraped the soil down to expose the Canadian shield?".
"The glaciers are melting! The glaciers are melting!"
Good thing they are or I'd be living on a crapload of ice in an igloo.
Enough hot air emanates from the Kyoto Krew to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Perhaps before we condem all of the people like slizuki I would hope we could have reasoned discussion on how we treat our planet. For example pollution in the air we breath can be improved and should be. On the other hand, the arguements about the kyoto accord being a gift to china and Maurice Strong have a great deal
of merit. The problem so far is that to many people want a podium for a pet point of view rather then encouraging serious discussion. Maybe we could start here. We can and should avoid emulating the liberal style rhetoric
Then there's the recent scientific report of impending global cooling brought on by a decline in solar activity: http://tinyurl.com/jhkzd
Global warming doomsters have always downplayed solar effects as an agent of cyclic climate change - which is to be expected since solar effects can't (easily) be blamed on human activity.
melwilde, there is a lot to be said for improving the quality of the air that we all breath and any efforts towards such an end are commendable, but for the Kyoto crowd to blame warming of the atmosphere on mankinds miniscule contribution since the industrial revolution is fraudulant at best.
melwilde - I agree and I hope to get to that topic in the next couple of days.
I expect the Conservative government to start moving the environmental policy away from useless boondoggles and onto practical, achievable improvements in air and water pollution.
They will, of course, be condemned far and wide for doing so but I want to put out the case that it is the right thing to do.
And while I have many disagreements with Suzuki and company, his organization also does much good work when they stick to real pollution issues.
In response to some extremely harsh criticisms of their work I went through the IPCC reports front to back with an open mind some time ago. The problem one encounters in criticising this stuff to those who've never read it(most people and virtually all "activists") is similar to the problems encountered by those who first reported on conditions in the Soviet Gulag system in the early 1930s. Conditions were so bad, no one would believe it. Likewise these studies/reports are so badly done no one believes that they could actually be that bad. After all, they were written by intelligent human beings, weren't they? The entire Kyoto thing is a boondoggle. Is it any wonder that it spawns boondoggles within boondoggles. There is a book in print titled "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds". It's a great read. It was written in the 1840s. Nothing has changed.
Cut'nRun Rae is Mo Strong's nephew, on his mother's side. Or, was it on his father's side?
Father Saul Rae helped to settle the VeetNam police action with a lot of assistance from John Kerry, Uncle Walt Cronkite, Hanoi Jane, et al.
Where is Mo? ...-
Maurice Strong and his Hydro connections
Dubbed "Uncle Mo" by the Premier[Rae], Strong was often a dinner guest at the diplomatic home of Saul Rae, the premier’s father. History will prove that "Uncle ...
www.canadafreepress.com/2003/main090203.htm - 30k
Welcome to Canada, the New Soviet Union
Everyone Russia bound is "quality" people, like former socialist Ontario Premier Bob Rae. Rae’s beloved "Uncle Mo", Maurice Strong, a special advisor to ...
www.canadafreepress.com/2003/edesk091503.htm
Lieberal involved in wasting Canadian Taxpayer's money? Say it ain't so. [I really tried to say that with a straight face, honest]
Just another thought... Will the Lieberals pull a Clinton? That is it's Harper's fault because he didn't do in six months what the Lieberals didn't do in 13 years. (Listen to Clinton talk about Bin Laudin)
I'm no fan of his, but whatever happened to Maurice Strong, anway? He's been out of the public eye for some time.
Kyoto was just a United Nations socialist move to cripple the American economy and spread the wealth around the world.
Was it Churchill that said "The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery."
humans are a result of the climate warming up in the past 10000 years not a cause.
10000 years ago , the climate was so cold in the space occupied by Canada even the indians had to work for a living.
10 months of winter and 2 months of summer - I am I the only Canadian that thinks global warming is a good thing? What exactly is the problem with a warming planet?
The use of eucalyptus trees for charcoal is quite common in areas of the world where there is a climate that will allow them to grow. Pig iron is a possibility, and I have visited a nickel plant which smelted nickel using wood chips instead of oil. Another plant in the tropics attempted to use wood waste to power a sawmill - while only semi-successful, it wasn't a complete bust. Countries which do not produce oil go to extreme lengths to use what they do have.
The United Nation's Kyoto Protocol is the biggest Hoax the world has ever been burdened with. Even the UN's Oil For Food Scandal pales in comparison.
Question ? The UN invented the scam. Does that not make the UN a scam also ?? What about Maurice Strong ? And One World Governance ? Earth Charter ? Jean Chretien ? Paul Martin ? Stephan Dion ? David Suzuki ?
Kyoto, what a joke. And it really is too bad serious environmentalists got high-jacked by social nutbars.
Looks like AL GORE has stolen CHICKEN LITTLES job
Read in the paper this am that toronto toilets are flushing pollution into a stream. Are those toronto voters finally flushing the liberals out of their system. We can hope.
Kakola, you say (in regards to the bizarre pig iron project) that "Countries which do not produce oil go to extreme lengths to use what they do have." Brazil is the third-largest oil producer in Latin America and posesses the second largest oil reserves in the region.
Say "Ah Soo", Moe!
Moe is hiding from prosecution in China.
The same country that payed Cretien a million to speak, as soon as he was no longer the primeminister.
Martin's biggest cutomer too.
Liberals love commies!
How many trees were cut down to make AL GORES dumb movie?