Canada May Pull Out of Kyoto Accord

[DonCoquixote]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/28/canada-may-pull-out-kyoto-accord-report-says/

I do not trust the source, but this, if half true, would be a disaster, as if Canada does this, then everybody will feel they can.

[TheKentuckian]

1. They have tar sands to extract. Wave some ca$h around and you'll see evaporating principles

and rearranged priorities real quick even if reality has to be seen through some kind of rose colored, circus mirror glasses to make it happen.

[DonCoquixote]

2. Canadian DUERS

Please tell me that this is BS, I do not like to think Harper changed you THAT MUCH.

[dipsydoodle]

3. They appear to have considered doing so nine years ago

From 2002 : Canada mulls Kyoto pull-out.

There is an intense debate in Canada between senior federal and provincial politicians over whether the country should follow its southern neighbour, the United States, and abandon the Kyoto protocol.

In recent months senior ministers at both national and provincial level have become increasingly critical of crucial sections of the treaty.

If Canada does pull out it will mark a sharp U-turn from the commitments made during the negotiations in Bonn last July, when Canada broke with the US and joined the European Union countries in a commitment to ratify the global warming treaty.

Ralph Klein, the premier of the oil-rich province Alberta, is among the most vocal opponents.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1984427.stm