CTV.ca | Dion hopes to allay 'Green Shift' doubts

SAINT JOHN, N.B. -- Liberal Leader Stephane Dion warned New Brunswickers on Thursday that the international community will punish economies that don't shift toward greener policies and cleaner fuels.

Dion, whose Green Shift carbon-tax plan has met with tepid support in Atlantic Canada, raised the spectre of foreign tariffs on Canadian energy exports if this country doesn't clean up its act.

"The world will not be nice for the free-riders of climate change," Dion told Liberal partisans at a morning pancake breakfast.

Why so few companies on the WWF Climate Savers list?

JohnsonDiversey is the first company from the cleaning industry to join WWF’s Climate Savers, which was founded in 1999 and now comprises 17 major international companies. By 2010 they will collectively cut carbon emissions by over 14 million tons annually – the equivalent of taking more than three million cars off the road every year.

The WWF Climate Savers programme has existing agreements with Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Nike, Polaroid, Hewlett Packard, The Collins Companies, Spitsbergen Travel, Xanterra Parks and Resorts, Sagawa, Sony, Nokia, Tetra Pak, Lafarge, Catalyst, Novo Nordisk, and Nokia Siemens Networks.