Climate change pact signed by California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia

[kpete]

Source: Mercury News

Climate change pact signed by California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia
By Paul Rogers



SAN FRANCISCO -- Saying that the West Coast must lead the way in battling climate change, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington, along with the premier of British Columbia, signed an agreement Monday committing the Canadian province and the three states to coordinate global-warming policies.

Each state and the Canadian province promised to take roughly a dozen actions, including streamlining permits for solar and wind projects, better integrating the electric power grid, supporting more research on ocean acidification and expanding government purchases of electric vehicles.

"You are witnessing a historic small-but-powerful first step," California Gov. Jerry Brown said during the event, held at Cisco's San Francisco campus.

"It's only the beginning. You just watch," Brown said. "Next year and the year after and the year after that, this will spread until finally we get a real handle and grasp on what is the world's greatest existential challenge -- the stability of our climate, on which we all depend."

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_24406734/california-oregon-washington-and-british-columbia-sign-climate

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. "Cascadia" in action!

I am loving it. More please!

[Arugula Latte]

6. Love my country of Cascadia!

[BrotherIvan]

7. Can we secede please?

Cascadia might just become that liberal experiment we've been dreaming of. I hope all the fundies feel so overrun by us dirty hippies and teh gay they escape into Arizona and Nevada. And take all the Darryl Issa and DiFi fans with them.

Maybe they can get together and create single payer all up and down the Left Coast. (Or BC will kindly extend theirs down to us.) KABAM!!

[totodeinhere]

8. Nevada is becoming more blue by the day. I would want my state to be a part of

Cascadia. Thank you very much. Yes there are some very conservative enclaves in this state, but no more so than in Eastern Washington and Eastern Oregon.

[Tikki]

20. We would want you very much Nevadians.

I know in the past the DOE has tried to dump stuff in your front yards…this alliance would
stop that, forever.


Tikki

[PasadenaTrudy]

37. Hee Ha!! n/t

[Matariki]

12. +1

<3

[KT2000]

2. K & R

[ancianita]

3. I just wonder what they'll collectively do about the tons of radioactivity hitting their shores.

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. Mind reader...

[Tikki]

4. What I know for sure is that British Columbia is definitely part of a West Coast power pact.

And we on the U.S. West Coast welcome them…did you notice who was missing?



Tikki

[roguevalley]

5. Oregon rules. Again. :D

[passiveporcupine]

21. Not in everything

We still need to work on gay marriage equality and legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use.

But yeah! Oregon makes me proud a lot. Go webfeet!

[Pyrzqxgl]

25. Alaska & Baja California (Del Norte & Del Sur)

[Tikki]

32. I know, but it would be grand if we could get Baja California in with us...

Alaska, I fear it will take a lot to get some Alaskans to really understand the
consequences. Some already do and I am hoping their numbers rise.


Tikki

[SunSeeker]

9. K & R

[Matariki]

10. Viva Cascadia!

[Aristus]

13. Cascadia Forever!

[the_chinuk]

26. … Advance Cascadia Fair …

[gtar100]

11. Awesome. And so it begins...

... the efforts to bring along the horror freak show red states who will no doubt be kicking and screaming the whole time we are trying to save their asses since they don't have a clue about what's good for themselves.

[pampango]

14. As a Midwesterner I am jealous. How come the west coast gets the importance of

global warming and is willing to do something about it? Much of the country is in the hands of the deniers.

[Orsino]

15. If only the capitalist nations would co-sign. n/t

[WillyT]

16. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[gopiscrap]

17. Excellent

[LittleGirl]

18. Love it! ! But wait, WHERE IS ALASKA?

they are not there? why? WHY?

[underpants]

22. I know you are kidding but Alaska is literally in oil's pocket

85% of the state budget is paid by oil companies and those co.'s want no climate change regs.

[LittleGirl]

30. ^^THIS^^

That is exactly why I had WHY in capitals...Those Caribou Barbies don't want no more regulations....smh

[AAO]

19. They might also want to sign a Radiation Change pact. Fukashima is going to get them all.

[passiveporcupine]

23. Not just F^ckushima

We already have Hanford and San Onofre. SO hasn't blown yet but they are in quake territory, and Hanford has been a disaster for a long long time, and I live way damn too close to it.

[The Stranger]

24. I hate to post this, but

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation;

(Const., Art. I, Sec. 10).

The Republicans and anti-environment groups are going to attack it.

[CreekDog]

28. they attack all these efforts anyway

so what.

[The Stranger]

29. I'm sure they had some lawyers look at it and craft it accordingly.

Right? (Right?!)

[Trillo]

27. At least they're trying.

[NoOneMan]

31. States and a province getting together?

Is there a precedent for that (beyond utilities)?

Cool

[Zorra]

34. As much as I despise cold weather, I'm thinking about moving back home to North Cascadia.

The left coast is always the pioneer of everything that is so much better.

[Uncle Joe]

35. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[catchnrelease]

36. When I heard this today

The first thing that I thought of was Ecotopia. (With expanded borders both North and South)