One clear cut forest at a time;
Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday criticized the Kyoto Protocol on climate change for failing to allow countries like his nation with pristine unharvested forests to earn carbon credits.
“The Kyoto Protocol is limited in that sense, and it’s short-sighted in that it encourages bad behaviour basically among countries; if you cut down trees and you plant them back you get money, if you preserve them, you don’t get anything,” Jagdeo told a forum on agro-energy.
But that’s about to change…
He said Guyana has decided to get into the production of bio-fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.
Goodbye, rain forest – hello, palm oil plantations!
I love it when a plan falls apart.
Say… maybe if I wait a few months, and all that Guyanese hardwood floods the market, I just might save a couple thousand bucks on the kitchen cabinets.
Man-oh-man! I think I’ll line the basement walls with oak! To heck with gyprock.
In other words, an international plan to manage economic growth, for some PERCEIVED will-o’-the-wisp benefit, by way of “central control” shows that it is impossible to do just that. As usual.
You go, Mr. President! As is your right.
Palmitate is sooo bad for you. Better to stick with arichidonate.
So ya wanna save rain forsts from going into fuel tanks?
Wrestle away battery patents from Chevron and provide tax incentives for battery and air-compressor run transportation.
The Canadian public seems in the dark about the potential for saving $400 a month in gas or diesel money.
Errington*s Canadian Electric Vehicles sells mostly to U.S. consumers. ** Can not find any Canadians who are remotely interested in not buying gas or diesel.** = TG
The world is jumping on the biofuel bandwagon – it’s going to be a lot of fun to see what happens.
I’ll take cconn’s comment as sarcasm; the ride is going to be far from fun. Turning food sources and agriculture into commodities that will be bought and sold on the world’s stock exchanges will undoubtedly lead to higher food prices the world over, and those prices will fluctuate the same as fuel does today (in non-regulated provinces or states). Which leads to another point: with the rise of this industry, extra layers of government and regulation will have to be added, the exact opposite of what we need (less government).
On the bright side, the price of marine grade mahogany is going to PLUMMET! At least I’ll be able to make a nice boat to burn that expensive biofuel in, eh?
Cows are putting out too much of the old methane and are second to automobiles as contributors to GHG’s, so say the “experts”. Must have been a fun study down on the farm.
Just what are we going to do about those cows?
No doubt Gore and Suzuki will get onto this BS quickly and get a fart catchers to save the planet movement going.
Mahogany just moved up a notch on the CITES list which means higher prices and more difficulty in exporting. Try getting a piece of raw mahogany from the US in Canada, most vendors won’t because its not worth the trouble to fill out the paperwork. So not only will the Guyanese have incentive from the Kyoto cult to cut the trees down to grow palms the UN Treaty will also encourage them to cut them down to grow something they can export.
“Cows are putting out too much of the old methane and are second to automobiles as contributors to GHG’s, so say the “experts”.”
Cows are counted in the European formula for man-made global warming — did you know that?!
I guess if it wasn’t for man, cows wouldn’t exist, or, at least, emit.
Well,there are a couple of tough choices there, a toss up between man and cows. On the other hand, maybe we could just give them “Gasex” and solve the problem.
Is the world going mad or what?
To mark peters,
The point I am making is that the biofuel industry is here whether we like it or not. The relationship with oil is going to change and the relationship with food is going to change – and it may change for the better with new advancements (maybe ‘durham’ suger cane) and new options for farmers.
I seem to recall that under the Kyoto agreement, the millions of acres of standing forest in Canada aren’t taken into consideration for carbon offsets. Perhaps we too should consider more clearcutting and replanting in order to accomodate the Gore crowd.
As the average human farts 14 times a day, some of us chili and pasta lovers a lot more, thats a lot of methane. We also exhale 10 times the co2 we inhale, soon they will have us walking around with a global warming gas meter on both ends, anyone exceeding a set limit will be put on a vegetarian diet. Oops a veg. diet consists of a lot of beans and everyone knows what they do.
A few years ago the greens were telling us that the most precious resource the planet has is our rain forests. Now those same greens are telling people that cutting down those same rain forests is a good thing. No hypocracy there.
I seem to have to put this on every post about cows,COWS DONT FART! Horses do but cows have four(4) stomachs and the digestive process is much more refined in cows.I’ve owned them and had them tied up to milk etc.They dont produce methane,horses do.The same crap was told about buffalo and the huge ozone hole over western Canada brfore the white man came.I asked the person that told me if he had lived in western Canada? I told him that there may have been a hole someplace but it sure as Hell wasnt over here because of the ever present wind.
To Spike 1: If you think cows don’t fart then you haven’t met my old girlfriend. /rimshot please!
Me bad, but hey it’s Friday night.
Our senate did not ratifi this KYOTO PROTICOL and frankly we should just dump the whole darn thing
Spike 1,
Cows are only a stand in for the millions of buffalo that roamed all over western Canada.
Also, herds of caribou / wapiti still roam the north.
Fewer buffalo, more cows, not much more methane.
Thousands of dirty coal-gen plants. Now there is a real atmospheric burden. = TG
If we could harness all that HOT AIR that would make AL GORE and the liberals very usful