The Conservative government announced there new plan for the environment today and it’s called the “Clean Air Act”. Great news by 2050 we will cut green houses gasses by fifty percent.
Yes folks that’s right 2050.
In the meantime the conservatives will set “intensify based” targets. Basically this means as companies get bigger they can pollute more. There was the announcement that industry would have targets to meet in reducing smog, but they plan to spend the next four years discussing possible targets with the same industries that are polluting. There were no actual reduction amounts announced.
Liberal leader Bill Graham put it quite well when he asked "How on Earth could they(conservatives) have laboured so long to now tell us there is not one single new action in this decade that will stop climate change or reduce air pollution?"
The Conservative Party has always been about big business and not about the common person.
Alberta, the site of the biggest oil reserves outside the Middle East, emits more greenhouse gases than any other province and emissions are poised to grow as companies boost production.
Coincidentally Alberta is also the founding Province of what would become the Conservative party.
Gilles Duceppe said that this plan “was written in Alberta and made in Washington.”
I can’t wait to have my say in the next election.
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