Commentary: Why Canada Kissed Kyoto Good-bye | The National Interest
Canada's departure from Kyoto has put $1600 into every Canadian family’s bank account. At the same time, by allowing Canada to go ahead developing oil properties, the decision will keep a cap on crude prices and allow developing nations to grow and prosper. Canada may, by developing oil sands, diminish American dependence on Middle Eastern energy. Most importantly, the decision protects the Canadian economy from the recession that has gripped Europe. It was the right thing to do.
Professor Tom Velk is director of North American Studies at McGill University.
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From the linked article:-
"When Canadian environment minister Peter Kent announced that Canada was withdrawing from the Kyoto protocol at the COP-17 Climate Change conference in Johannesburg earlier this month, he articulated a view that environment ministers from most large, developed, carbon-emitting countries must have shared"
Mr Kent was at the wrong conference, he should have been at the Durban one!
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