"Energy security trumps climate"

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And in early September, Sierra Club’s B.C. office was told its $100,000 grant for climate change education was terminated by Environment Canada.

Sierra Club was supplying information materials for a program called House Cooling, in which groups of employees or neighbours meet at one member’s house to discuss ways of reducing their carbon footprint. Environment Minister John Baird apparently doesn’t go for carbon parties.

Selling B.C. carbon tax

B.C. Forests Minister Pat Bell is bullish on exporting wood for energy use, such as pellet plants and even whole log grinding.

“Ironically, the reason why we can manufacture pellets and ship them halfway around the world to the Scandinavian countries to be burned in large electrical generation facilities is because of the carbon tax in those very countries,” Bell says. “It has displaced coal and created a need for a biomass product that can be burned.”