Obama knows best?: 4 ex-PMs push for green budget

Four former prime ministers are urging the Harper government to follow Barack Obama’s lead and use a “green stimulus” to help jump-start the economy.

“It is time to vault Canada into the green economy,” says a statement signed by Former Conservative leaders Joe Clark and Kim Campbell, and Liberals Paul Martin and John Turner to be released Wednesday. “Green stimulus creates jobs and will jump-start Canada’s role in the new global economy.”
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Environmental activist Tzeporah Berman, executive director of PowerUP Canada, who lobbied the former prime ministers to sign the statement, says there is no reason for Canadians to lag behind Americans on the green front. “Barack Obama is planning millions of green jobs,” she says. “Why should Canadians be left behind?”
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Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental Defence, describes the proposed green stimulus package as a “no-brainer,” saying it could fight both the recession and global warming. “There are jobs just waiting to be created and businesses poised to grow,” he says.

IFA news

The vice-president and spokesman on climate change Sean O’Leary told the Institute of International & European Affairs (IIEA) Climate Change conference in Dublin Castle that farmers posses the key to unlock Ireland’s dependence on fossil fuels and increasing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
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“A recent IFA submission to government has identified an initial 6,000 locations in Ireland where farmers could establish micro wind turbines in a non-visually intrusive way.

Obama likely to get the support of five Republicans for his policies

[Senator Susan Collins (Maine) has] already indicated that she's eager to work with the new president on climate change and health care reform...