6 Yrs Into Alberta Climate "Plan", No Emission Cuts, No Monitoring, No Publications - Auditor

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EDMONTON - Six years after unveiling its strategy to combat climate change, the Alberta government has failed to meet its targets, hasn’t regularly monitored its results and has yet to publish a single public document on its outcomes, the province’s auditor general said in a scathing report released Tuesday.

Auditor General Merwan Saher concluded that four years after the Alberta government’s 2008 Climate Change Strategy was unveiled, the environment department still hadn’t established a method of consistently measuring whether the policy was working.

Saher’s audit found “no evidence” the department regularly monitored the strategy’s results against its targets between 2008 and 2010. “For the government to essentially remain silent in that period is troubling,” Saher said Tuesday. The province has also failed to publish any detailed reports of the strategy’s effectiveness.

“There should have been public reporting. It didn’t happen,” Saher said. “There hasn’t been yet — and I think this is amazing — we’re in 2014 and there hasn’t yet been a public report on the success or otherwise of the 2008 strategy.”

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http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Auditor+General+slams+province+handling+climate+change+strategy/10011471/story.html

[Turbineguy]

1. Sir Humphrey Appleby

would be impressed.