Greenhouse gas emissions up in B.C.
Last updated Jun 5 2006 08:39 AM PDT
CBC News
The latest report from Environment Canada shows greenhouse gas emissions in B.C. have increased by nearly 30 per cent since 1990 — the base year in the Kyoto agreement on climate change.
Eighty-three per cent of those emissions come from the oil and gas industry and the use of cars, trucks and outboard motors in the province.
The B.C. emissions numbers are contained in a report issued last month by Environment Canada to the United Nations convention on climate change.
Matt Price of the Conservation Voters of B.C. said the report shows the province is "heading in entirely the wrong direction in terms of our Kyoto commitments."
The Campbell government unveiled its own climate change plan a year and a half ago. It includes measures to encourage clean energy and alternative fuels.
The government also cites the fact that B.C. has the third lowest level of greenhouse gas emissions per capita in Canada.
But Price questions the government's commitment, given its support for major highway and energy projects that will increase emissions.
Price added that the increase in B.C.'s emissions isn't likely to be found on any government news release.
"Not only has Canada at the national level begun to abdicate its Kyoto commitments, but B.C. is also leading the way in breaking our international commitments."
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Last updated Jun 5 2006 08:39 AM PDT
CBC News
The latest report from Environment Canada shows greenhouse gas emissions in B.C. have increased by nearly 30 per cent since 1990 — the base year in the Kyoto agreement on climate change.
Eighty-three per cent of those emissions come from the oil and gas industry and the use of cars, trucks and outboard motors in the province.
The B.C. emissions numbers are contained in a report issued last month by Environment Canada to the United Nations convention on climate change.
Matt Price of the Conservation Voters of B.C. said the report shows the province is "heading in entirely the wrong direction in terms of our Kyoto commitments."
The Campbell government unveiled its own climate change plan a year and a half ago. It includes measures to encourage clean energy and alternative fuels.
The government also cites the fact that B.C. has the third lowest level of greenhouse gas emissions per capita in Canada.
But Price questions the government's commitment, given its support for major highway and energy projects that will increase emissions.
Price added that the increase in B.C.'s emissions isn't likely to be found on any government news release.
"Not only has Canada at the national level begun to abdicate its Kyoto commitments, but B.C. is also leading the way in breaking our international commitments."
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