We Are Winning?

.what. .the. .----. ?

"Things will be different if the CPC get a majority." I see how this is going.

Prime Minister Stelmach...ur...what?
The Liberal party of S. Harper shows it's true colors...this is just the beginning of 4 years of Liberal rule.

Bigger government, more government intrusion.

I remember Harper lambasting Martin about gas prices, "working families" and all that.

Remember that Stevie?
I do.

**** you.

NEP II?

Drinking too much green koolaid eh?

What Harper should be doing is setting up a "commission" to evaluate the claims of the "Man made global warming fearists" and force them to defend their scientific methodology and claims that burning hydro carbons is causing warming. Put them under oath and in a public setting with all the cameras and mics and make them answer the questions.

Carl: ... but then he wouldn't be a BFF at the G20.

Everyone calm down. Sharper is still doing the old say one thing do another that has been his MO since 2006. The senate killed the last climate change bill without even debating it.
What is really being said in this article? New and expanding industry will have to comply with tougher regulations. Okay. What does that mean? Nothing.
As for following Alberta's lead...well...Danielle Smith isn't a fan of carbon capture,so...we'll see.

this is just some cheap feed for the MSM.

Pretend to be interested, appoint a group to study the problem, read a report the group writes.

Five years go by, make new promises.

Harper knows how to deal with the idiots in Euroland who bought into the AGW scam, wasted hundreds of billions of Euros on stupid schemes and scams and now need to deflect attention to another country.

And he has Obama figured out . . . all teleprompter all the time but a man of zero substance.

Harper had better feed his base or his Party is toast. There has to be something else going on here. To have even the appeaerance of NEP2 would be certain suicide politicaly. It would be a Canadian disaster both out here & the East. In fact it would be the end of Alberta,s aquaintence with Confederation.
THis would be the last straw.

Oh ... I understand now ... there is only so much one can do when they have a minority ... oh ... wait.

The point is that Harper is putting in place a massive bureaucracy that's ready to let loose when needed (it matters not how much it actually does now) ... he has no intention of dismantling the vast progressive regime. In fact, he's likely going to expand it. The day will come that the Progressives take power again, and Stevie will have done little but baby-sit the enormous apparatus put in place since Trudeau.

Or, is he simply going to turn the CPC into the next Big Gov. Progressive party.

Whats new? The Multinational Greens (watermelons) have been in charge of the agenda for decades now. They control the media, all bureaucracies, education, entertainment, and even the mainstream churches. Add some good old fashioned corporate rent seeking and you have a perfect watermelon stew. Harper has been engaged in (a lighter version of) monkey-see-monkey-do policy alignment (so as not to draw too much attention to Canada not overtly committing economic suicide a la Obama) ever since Obama came to power. Throw in a deflationary commodity market with a Canadian real estate bubble burst and Canada will be in a similar economic boat as the US, minus the Mexican invasion.

The U.S. State Department is in the final stages of an environmental review of the pipeline project and the Environmental Protection Agency has urged the department to provide more information about what Canada is doing to reduce emission from the oil sands.

This kind of thing is infuriating. What business is it of theirs how much plant food Canada's oil industry puts into the atmosphere? The EPA has no jurisdiction in Canada.

"the Environmental Protection Agency has urged the department to provide more information about what Canada is doing to reduce emission from the oil sands. "

Is is just me, but when some "furrin" "agency" expresses "concern" , and "urges" etc..., the correct attitude should be "thanks for the question, please contact your embassy and address us through proper channels"

And when the embassy eventually gets around forwarding the question to foreign affairs, the correct response from FA should be somewhere between :"sod off" and silence.

If that article is true, the Feds are in for a rough ride.

If the feds want to be able to approve/reject the owners equipment selections, they (the feds) make themselves accountable for the performance of the plant, if it contains any equipment not selected/approved by the plant owner.

Should make for a lot of lawyers making a lot of money.

When the NY Times - the TIMES! . . . writes this:

"FEELING the need for an example of government policy run amok? Look no further than the box of cornflakes on your kitchen shelf. In its myriad corn-related interventions, Washington has managed simultaneously to help drive up food prices and add tens of billions of dollars to the deficit, while arguably increasing energy use and harming the environment."

You KNOW reality is setting in with the Greenie fools

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/opinion/25Rattner.html?_r=1

Time Alberta reasssed it role in a Nation that is hell bent on its own demise.

The simplest way of reducing the CO2 footprint of the oil sands is a massive nuclear reactor construction project to reduce the use of natural gas which is currently burned to provide heat required to get the oil out of the sands. Simple and very environmentally friendly. Alberta needs to diversify its industrial base and adding a nuclear industry along with the oil industry would be of great future benefit.

WTF are we sending crude oil all the way to the Gulf of Mexico to be refined? The best plan would be to build some refineries in Alberta which also gives better gasoline availability the next time a hurricane decides to shut down all of the Gulf refineries.

Waterhouse, the EPA is just looking for an excuse to kill Keystone. Of course we have to do things like this. The US has been exporting their environmental law on others for years. Just look at the renewable standards for imported electricity. You don't think Hydro Quebec really wanted to build those useless wind turbines in Gaspe, do you? When they've got NBR and Great Whale future projects which can put out about 100,000 times as much electricity?

And for everybody else who ranted on about NEB 2 or such-like nonsense, put on dunce caps and go to the back of the class. This entire thing is about avoiding US non-tariff trade barriers.

Loki, a great idea that's been floating around for about 15 years, but there's a problem. There's a limited distance that you can move steam, and a large nuclear plant would mean piping over very long distances. It could be fixed by heater stations along the way, but that would all add to the system cost. A better answer may be in the much smaller power reactors being developed. These are in the range of 10-50 megawatts, and are essentially sealed units with a five to 10 year fuel supply. They are still in the development stage however, and for some, they have yet to produce prototypes.

At the moment, it's tough to do because of the very low cost of natural gas.

But it's coming.

Harper is a spineless empty suit bereft of principle! Totally didn't see that coming /sarc.

While I applaud the move to begin to address our carbon emissions, I agree with other commenters that this is a bad way to do it. A carbon tax would be much less distorting to the market.