Saturday, August 07, 2010

Cap and trade could milk Alberta for generations
The oilsands giants, besides paying their regular bonanza in tax revenue to Ottawa, would become major contributors to balance sheets right across to Quebec.

This is the perfect fix for provinces that have jealously coveted Alberta's energy revenues for a generation. Our companies would simply pay cash to their Crown corporations.
BP collecting millions in government stimulus funds for California power plant | The Climate Desk | Grist
The federal government is giving a joint venture involving oil giant BP millions of dollars in stimulus money to build a power plant on farmland near the tiny Kern County town of Tupman, Calif., even as the company faces heavy government pressure and a criminal probe into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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"If you're trying to get money out of them, why are you giving them money?" said Tom Frantz, a local environmental advocate and part-time almond farmer who opposes the power plant. "If I was the government right now, I would not give BP $300 million to do anything."
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The federal government is providing about 12 percent of the project's price tag to foster clean coal technology that captures carbon dioxide emissions as part of the battle against global warming.
Obama's Political Payback — Green Corruption - Patriotic Resistance
Billions of stimulus money going to Al Gore and John Doerr “green” companies –– multiple federal investigations are underway.

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