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Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach on Thursday rejected a new report that says Ottawa can only achieve its greenhouse gas emissions targets by limiting growth in Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C.

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Posted on November 1, 2009 · in Canada

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VANCOUVER — Calculating the difference between a $25 carbon credit purchased in British Columbia and a 14-cent credit purchased in daily trading on the Chicago Climate Exchange is apparently not a matter for simple arithmetic.

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Posted on October 31, 2009 · in Canada

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In December, representatives from almost every country in the world will gather for the United Nations Climate Treaty talks in Copenhagen.

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Posted on October 25, 2009 · in Canada

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A Heliskiing operation in British Columbia is offering two new intitiatives in a bid to offer improve safety and environmental stewardship.

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Posted on October 22, 2009 · in Canada

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It’s 8:30 a. m. and farmer Greg Appleyard is busy working the phones and shaking hands at his massive agricultural enterprise just north of Strathmore.

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Posted on October 18, 2009 · in Canada

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Early on in the decade about there was much talk of farmers getting paid for storing carbon in the soil and for implementing other “climate change initiatives” on the farm. In the past year, there has been a lot in the news again about “carbon trading”. Financial Soultions takes a look.

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Posted on October 10, 2009 · in Canada

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Paul Antonello has answered plenty of questions about a new city bylaw in recent weeks. Fielding call after call is just fine with the Sault Ste. Marie Fire Services fire prevention officer.
Beginning this past Thursday, every home in the city with a fuel-fired appliance such as a furnace, fireplace, clothes dryer that uses wood, natural gas, propane, oil kerosene, coal or charcoal, and/or an attached garage must have a working carbon monoxide alarm.

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Posted on October 8, 2009 · in Canada

Not all carbon offsets vendors are created equal

October 8, 2009 Canada

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MONTREAL – I just booked a trip to Arizona in February to attend an old friend’s birthday celebrations. Can’t wait. But as an environment reporter, I’m reading and writing about climate change all the time. So every time I book a flight, I cringe, knowing that greenhouse gases emitted from airplanes [...]

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Councillors’ carbon tax gripes fade away

October 5, 2009 Canada

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VANCOUVER – Nobody’s talking about the carbon tax.
Environment Minister Barry Penner made that observation Wednesday at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, where only a year ago the imposition of North America’s first tax on fossil fuels was a raging controversy among local government officials from around B.C.

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RMOW to spend $50K on carbon offsets in 2010

September 30, 2009 Canada

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Whistler – Thanks to a new plan adopted by council last week, Whistler is expected to become the first municipality in B.C. to become carbon neutral — a full two years ahead of its requirement under the B.C. Climate Action Charter.

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Man. clarifies ownership of farm carbon offsets

September 30, 2009 Canada

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The Manitoba government’s plans to retain ownership of carbon credits from on-farm projects it funds under new programs will be limited to the same scope as its funding contributions.

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Ottawa Police reduce carbon emissions

September 25, 2009 Canada

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The Ottawa Police Fleet Services section is taking great strides to reduce the carbon footprint left by the service through the introduction of a new “Green” patrol unit which will help reduce unnecessary idling.

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Carbon tax needed to avert climate crisis, says think-tank.

September 21, 2009 Canada

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PARIS – Political leaders in Canada and other major developed western countries need to show courage by uniting to support a carbon tax to prevent a climate-change crisis, the head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said here Friday.

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C.U. Plans for Carbon Neutrality

September 20, 2009 Canada

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Since President David Skorton signed the Presidents’ Climate Commitment in the fall of 2007 at the behest of the student group KyotoNOW!, the University has been working on a plan to make Cornell carbon neutral by 2050. Yesterday, the University unveiled the Cornell Climate Action Plan –– a set of general [...]

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Carbon credits ‘cure could be worse than the disease’

September 17, 2009 Canada

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Carbon credits — to package and trade offsets to greenhouse gas emissions–won’t work, says McGill University economist Christopher Green.

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EFAP plan cuts Man. gov’t in on carbon credits

September 13, 2009 Canada

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A Prairie consulting agronomists’ firm warns that Manitoba’s replacement for the Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) program gives the province a cut of any carbon credits accrued through the farm practices it funds.

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So What’s Wrong With Carbon Offsets As Indulgences?

September 8, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Treehugger.com |
As I prepare to move back to the City on Labour Day after a summer in my sinful second home, I am thinking about carbon offsets for my 2-1/2 hour drive. But offsets are out of fashion, considered akin to the purchase of indulgences from the medieval church- a few bucks [...]

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ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. Announces Restatement of the Third Quarter 2008 Interim Consolidated Financial Statements

September 6, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Sys-con.com |
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/27/09 — ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (ERA or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE: ESR) announces that the Company’s previously issued interim consolidated financial statements for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008 will be restated to reflect the changes made to the deferred revenue recognized as [...]

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Wind credit vendor helps cut Alberta carbon emissions.

August 30, 2009 Canada

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EDMONTON – Car dealer Jeff Hodgson has been a snowmobiler for 20 years, but glaciers he once rode across have shrunk so much they can no longer be reached, and the warm-weather-loving pine beetle is destroying forests.

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ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates, Inc.: “Guide to Carbon Offsets for Canadian Businesses and Consumers” by the David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute Is Both Deficient and Biased

August 27, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Itbusinessnet.com |
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/07/09 — ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates, Inc. -
The comments below have been agreed upon in response to the “Guide” listed above by the following five organizations:
Carbon Friendly Solutions, Inc. ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates, Inc. Paso Pacifico Tree Canada Zerofootprint
On July 16, 2009, the David Suzuki [...]

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Carbon fuels drive Canada’s economy

August 25, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Saudigazette.com.sa |
OAKVILLE, Canada – One day renewable energy may give Canada enough power to light up its cities, but that day has yet to arrive and cannot be seen coming in the foreseeable future.

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Ehrlich: carbon, growth, consequences

August 23, 2009 Canada

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During the 1960s, when Drs. Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren were trying to anticipate the ultimate consequences of perpetual economic growth, they decided to try quantifying the process. Their intention was to give some mathematical figures to those economists who believed that a finite world could accommodate an indefinite expansion of [...]

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Laser cuts carbon dioxide emissions

August 22, 2009 Canada

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EDMONTON – A toaster-sized laser installed inside the exhaust stack at the coal-fired Genesee 3 (G3) power plant south of Wabamun Lake should cut carbon dioxide emissions by two per cent.

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Carbon credits offer cold comfort for Fraser Valley residents

August 19, 2009 Canada

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The powers that be at the B.C. Utilities Commission are apparently planning to crank Burrard Thermal in Port Moody up to full bore to supply us with electricity.

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Carbon fund has $120M to spend on green ideas

August 17, 2009 Canada

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Alberta’s rapidly-growing carbon technology fund, which banks penalties from major greenhouse gas emitters, is looking for the best ways to spend $120 million.

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ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates, Inc.: “Guide to Carbon Offsets for Canadian Businesses and Consumers” by the David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute Is Both Deficient and Biased

August 15, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From PR-inside.com |
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (Marketwire) — 08/07/09 — ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates, Inc. –    The comments below have been agreed upon in response to the “Guide” listed above by the following five organizations:   Carbon Friendly Solutions, Inc.  ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates, Inc.  Paso Pacifico  Tree Canada  Zerofootprint.    On July [...]

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Carbon market could reshape economy

August 10, 2009 Canada

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Making Montreal home to Canada’s carbon market is not just about buying and selling carbon credits, says Leon Bitton, vice-president research and development of the Montreal Exchange.

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Carbon offset pilot in Kap could set another milestone

August 7, 2009 Canada

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It is already one of the first companies in Canada to begin selling carbon credits, but now Trees For Clean Air in Kapuskasing might be the first such enterprise to receive third-party certification.

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Greens: No escape from Clean Air Act on CO2

July 30, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Canadafreepress.com |
A key Sierra Club attorney says the group’s support for final passage of a climate bill is conditioned on the preservation of EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act [CAA] to require reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs) from existing facilities, an assertion that appears to be a reversal from the group’s [...]

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Critics see holes in Alberta’s CO2 plan

July 28, 2009 Canada

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CALGARY – The Stelmach government has given tentative approval to three carbon capture projects that will share in$2 billion in public money–but critics say the plan still faces a difficult battle during a period of deficit spending and budget cuts.

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VCS eases rules for issuing Canada carbon credits

July 24, 2009 Canada

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leading verifier of voluntary carbon market offsets said on Wednesday it has eased its rules for Canadian projects that aim to cut emissions of greenhouse gases to issue carbon credits.
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Carbon-tax “protectionism” to start global trade war?

July 22, 2009 Canada

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Proposed “green” protectionism is drawing the ire of nations all over the world

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Environment UNBSJ student, who has discovered a way to trap carbon dioxide emissions from gas stacks, lands spot at conference

July 20, 2009 Canada

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Scott Walton is one of 180 attendees chosen from more than 900 applicants across the country for the University of Guelph conference, featuring environmental activist David Suzuki.

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New Greenhouse Power system Uses CO2 For Plants

July 15, 2009 Canada

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Canadian government and business leaders last week gathered near Lake Erie in southern Ontario for the grand opening of North America’s first GE-designed greenhouse cogeneration plant.

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FACE TO FACE: Health authorities should have to cut CO2 gasses, too

July 12, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From BClocalnews.com |
While I share my colleague’s concern that our healthcare system is already overburdened, I don’t agree that health authorities should be exempt from participating in efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

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Carbon Friendly Listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange

July 11, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Foxbusiness.com |
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jul 8, 2009 (Marketwire via COMTEX) —-Carbon Friendly Solutions Inc. (TSX VENTURE:CFQ) (FRANKFURT:0FS) (”CFS” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has been listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange and is now trading under the symbol 0FS.

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A 50 cent carbon tax?

July 9, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From BClocalnews.com |
Did you fill up your tank before July 1? That’s when the provincial carbon tax increased by 50 per cent, from 2.4 cents per litre to 3.6 cents per litre. Get used to it, the tax will increase next year, and the year after.

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B.C. carbon tax boosts prices at gas pump

July 3, 2009 Canada

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British Columbia got a little greener on Wednesday: The province celebrated the first anniversary of its carbon tax with a price bump at the gas pumps.

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Carbon Offsets Possible For Ag Sector

July 2, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Portageonline.com |
Farmers could be active participants in carbon offset markets in the not so distant future.
Bruce Love is with Alberta-based Preferred Carbon.

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Canada Day Celebrations – Borealis Offsets Plant Final Trees at McPhee Creek Afforestation Project

July 2, 2009 Canada

Borealis Offsets helped to officially mark Canada Day yesterday by planting the final trees at their afforestation project which is located 20 km northwest of Prince George in British Columbia. The project involved the planting of 120,000 tress of mixed native species planted over 75HA of marginal unused bare land, creating a managed sub-boreal forest [...]

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Shoots sprout in Canada’s green sector

June 29, 2009 Canada

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s alternative energy sector is showing signs of a budding recovery, as companies resurrect financing deals and public offerings that withered with the recession, but that revival remains very fragile.
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EDITORIAL: Carbon offsets good idea — but schools, hospitals shouldn’t have to pay

June 26, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Bclocalnews.com |
Reducing greenhouse gasses to slow climate change is a worthy goal, but not at the expense of students and sick people.

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Track Your Carbon Footprint With Ecobot

June 22, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Ostatic.com |
Everyone has a different theory on the best ways to be “green” and environment-friendly, but it’s hard to know where to start until you know how energy-efficient you already are. It’s fairly easy to figure out the carbon footprint of, say, your car, but what about smaller things like your computer [...]

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Canada: NRTEE Proposes Carbon Policy To Achieve 2050 Goals

June 21, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Mondaq.com |
Canadian businesses need to assess their greenhouse gas emissions and consider options for reducing such emissions in light of the recently released NRTEE report.
On April 16, 2009, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) issued its Achieving 2050 http://www.nrtee-trnee.com/eng/publications/carbon-pricing/carbon-pricing-eng.php proposal for a Canadian carbon pricing policy, which [...]

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Road to B.C. carbon neutrality goes through clarification

June 16, 2009 Canada

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VANCOUVER — The road to carbon neutrality will be long, complicated and expensive for B.C. schools, universities, colleges, health authorities and Crown corporations, and time is running out.
The provincial public sector has until 2010 to report its baseline greenhouse gas emissions, reduce those emissions as much as possible and purchase carbon [...]

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Carbon costs add to woes

June 14, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Bclocalnews.com |
The Lower Mainland’s health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.’s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints.
Critics say the payments mean the government’s strategy to fight climate change will further exacerbate a crisis in health funding.

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Cargill gets first experience selling carbon offsets

June 13, 2009 Canada

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Carbon cap-and-trade hasn’t come to the United States yet, but a Minnesota company in Canada is getting its first experience tracking and selling carbon emission offsets.
Cargill says it’s successfully registered and sold more than 400,000 tonnes of verified emission offsets through the Canadian Standards Association. Reuters reports that buying emissions offsets [...]

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Don Braid: Carbon offsets disaster in making

June 13, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Calgaryherald.com |
Federal regulation doesn’t inspire confidence.
The new world of carbon offsets trading looks a lot like the old world of the gun registry and another federal horror farther back, wage and price controls.
The goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I support it, so please hold the environmental tirades.
The larger question is [...]

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Canada says plans to set up market for carbon

June 11, 2009 Canada

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada on Wednesday unveiled plans for a national carbon market that it said would help cut emissions of greenhouse gases by making it more attractive to invest in clean energy projects.
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Carbon pricing conference to tackle controversial carbon tax

June 10, 2009 Canada

| sourced From Theprovince.com |
VANCOUVER — B.C. won worldwide acclaim for introducing its controversial carbon tax last year, but economists and environmentalists now agree that it’s time to evaluate whether the tax is actually working.
Is the B.C. carbon tax “experiment” achieving its goals? Is it helping to combat human-caused climate change? How does the carbon [...]

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BOMA Toronto CDM Program announces two new energy conservation programs for commercial properties in the ‘416′ area code

June 10, 2009 Canada

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Media Release
Two new programs to help reduce energy consumption for commercial building owners and tenants.
The BOMA Toronto CDM Program announces two new energy conservation programs for commercial properties in the ‘416′ area code.
(Toronto, June 10, 2009) The Building Owners and Managers Association of (BOMA) Toronto, on behalf of the Ontario Power [...]

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Vancouver to Offset 300,000 tons of CO2 at 2010 Olympics

June 7, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Mon.vipublog.com |
Offsetters Green Technology Inc., a Canadian-based carbon asset managing series and supplier of carbon offsets, disposition counteract up to 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. The series plans to sidekick with diction clean-technology companies including Nexterra, Sempa Power, Lignol Innovations, Ballard Power [...]

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Car-sharing program offers carbon offsets

June 7, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Canadiandriver.com |
Toronto, Ontario – Toronto car sharing program AutoShare has announced a new program with Zerofootprint that will offset the auto network’s carbon footprint. The program is estimated to offset over 1 million kilometres of city driving in 2009.
AutoShare will integrate the offset program as part of its environmental strategy, which already [...]

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New Carbon Footprint Calculator Launched

June 2, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From NewsWise.com |
Newswise — Dalhousie University’s Eco-Efficiency Centre, located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, now offers a cost-free carbon footprint calculator for small- and medium-sized businesses in Canada. With support from Nova Scotia Environment, the Centre’s calculator is a user-friendly tool to help businesses estimate their environmental impacts through measuring emissions associated with a [...]

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Carbon Busters sign 28 families to solar hot-water bulk buy

June 2, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From BCLocalNews.com |
Cowichan is now home to B.C.’s largest solar hot-water bulk buy, a local Carbon Buster says.
Peter Nix said about 28 Cowichan families have banded together to lighten their carbon footprint by buying the solar units that should pay for themselves in savings in less than 10 years.

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Ontario plans to tax carbon emissions

May 31, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From LandLineMag.com |
The Ontario provincial government wants to implement a cap-and-trade system to tax carbon emissions as early as 2012.
Many people are still wondering what cap and trade is, but a total of four provinces and seven western U.S. states are part of the Western Climate Initiative pushing to get carbon taxes in [...]

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Environment Expert Urges Alberta To Take Lead In Carbon Capture Technology

May 28, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From AllHeadlineNews.com |
Calgary, Alberta (AHN) – An environmental expert urged Alberta to take the lead in carbon capture technology as more stringent green laws are being passed in Canada and the United States.
Among the potential large customers of such a technology would be the U.S. as it sets to implement the Clean Energy [...]

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Canada May Follow U.S. in Forming Carbon Caps, Market (Update1)

May 27, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Bloomberg.com |
May 25 (Bloomberg) — Canada will likely follow the U.S. lead in trying to stem global warming through passing legislation to limit greenhouse gases, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said.
The U.S. plan, to be backed by a new emissions market, may be copied by Canada for gases such as carbon dioxide, Prentice [...]

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Carbon capture venture takes root near Edenwold

May 26, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From LeaderPost.com |
Two brothers from Regina are planting 140,000 poplar trees on 400 acres of marginal farmland near Edenwold and hoping to turn them into carbon credits and ultimately cold, hard cash.
Greenfield Carbon Offsetters Inc., the province’s first carbon offset farm, is also hoping to build a new, green industry in Saskatchewan, which [...]

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Carbon offsets: It really isn’t easy being green

May 26, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From TheGlobeAndMail.com |
Just finished college and can’t find a job? May I suggest an exciting new career in the world of carbon offsets?
While it may not be an industry with a long history or much sex appeal, it does have huge growth potential and serious earning power. In fact, it may soon be [...]

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Alberta ‘quiet leader’ for carbon offsets

May 26, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From CalgaryHerald.com |
A system of carbon dioxide offsets pioneered in Alberta for farmers may soon be a key part of the rapidly emerging cap-and-trade business that aims to reduce overall emissions and will have a major impact on the coal-fired electrical power plants and oil industry in this province.

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Alberta ‘quiet leader’ for carbon offsets

May 25, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From CalgaryHerald.com |
A system of carbon dioxide offsets pioneered in Alberta for farmers may soon be a key part of the rapidly emerging cap-and-trade business that aims to reduce overall emissions and will have a major impact on the coal-fired electrical power plants and oil industry in this province.

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Genome Alberta to Seek Carbon Solutions in Oil Sand Organisms

May 24, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From GreenTechMedia.com |
Genome Alberta will be spending $11.6 million Canadian ($10.3 million) to study, among other things, how biology might help mitigate the environmental costs of one of the planet’s more troublesome fossil fuel reserves – Canada’s heavy oil sands.

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Alberta leads the way in carbon-offset programs.

May 24, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Canada.com |
EDMONTON -A system of carbon dioxide offsets pioneered in Alberta for farmers may soon be a key part of the rapidly emerging cap-and-trade business that aims to reduce overall emissions and will have a major impact on the coal- fired electrical power plants and oil industry in this province.

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Canada details fund for carbon capture, clean energy

May 21, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Reuters |
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – The Canadian government announced details on Tuesday of the C$1 billion ($860 million) clean energy fund it promised in February, with the lion’s share of the cash going to support the development of carbon capture and storage projects.
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Canada oil sands emit more CO2 than average-report

May 20, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Reuters |
NEW YORK, May 18 (Reuters) – Canada’s oil sands emit more carbon dioxide than average crude so developers need a clearer picture of where greenhouse gas regulations are headed to find the best way to tap the giant resource, experts said.

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Thickening carbon border

May 19, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From TheGlobeAndMail.com |
Jim Prentice, the federal Minister of the Environment, was right to warn in a speech in Washington last Wednesday against “trade protectionism in the name of environmental protection.” But trade and environmental motives may be difficult to disentangle, and Canada must be ready to defend its vital interests as an exporting [...]

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Energy, carbon taxes and the winds of change

May 19, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From TheGlobeAndMail.com |
The newish Terminal 1 at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport – light, bright, and cavernous in size – is a monument to the power of debt and to grand visions of the future. Five years ago, when phase one of the $3.6-billion facility received its first passengers on an Air Canada flight [...]

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Carbon fracture

May 15, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From NationalPost.com |
As Canadians begin the long, painful process of saving the world from the scourge of person-made climate change, we can all agree that what is absolutely fundamental in this planet rescue is that federal-provincial jurisdictions be respected.

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Carbon-capture technology could ensure the future of coal-fired generating stations

May 14, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From JournalOfCommerce.com |
The French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry once remarked that “the trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
He was speaking in the period before the Second World War, but if he were alive today, he might say the same thing.
The future has always [...]

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Carbon tax: Nobody has it right

May 13, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Canada.com |
Dear Editor,
The Liberals are jamming us with their ‘Carbon Tax Fiasco’ fraud and the further left wing NDP (New Democratic Party) are promoting the ‘Cap and Trade’ falacy. The Irony – First of all, if CO2 is so bad, why do Greenhouses add it, 4-5 times ambient to make the vegetation [...]

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Oil and gas industry looking for clear leadership on carbon emissions

May 12, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From HillTimes.com |
With no clear regulations or guidelines on where the federal government is going on complying with the Kyoto Protocol, the oil and gas industry could be in trouble when it comes to long-term investments, say industry stakeholders.

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Boosting carbon dioxide capture from the air

May 12, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From EnvironmentalResearchWeb.org |
Researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada have developed a new process for recovering the alkaline solution that enables wet scrubbing systems to capture carbon dioxide from air. The technique appears to be better than conventional chemical recovery processes because it requires much less energy, so it’s more economical.

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Canadians barely support carbon tax; don’t like B.C. carbon tax, poll finds

May 11, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Google.com |
VICTORIA, B.C. — Canadians are willing to flirt with a nationwide carbon tax to fight climate change, but bets are off when it comes to paying the bill, a new poll has found.

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Rules for carbon storage become law

May 9, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From GreatfallsTribune.com |
HELENA (AP) — The governor has signed into law a bill that creates regulatory guidelines for storing carbon dioxide underground in Montana.

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Saskatchewan, Montana expected to sign deal on project to capture carbon emissions (Carbon-Capture)

May 9, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From OilWeek.com |
REGINA _ Saskatchewan and Montana appear ready to take the plunge into an agreement that would see carbon emissions pumped underground.

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Grits vote to support carbon tax

May 5, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From TheTyee.ca |
Support for the controversial carbon tax, expansion of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and removal of discriminatory organ donation rules were among the most hotly-debated policies adopted by Liberal Party of Canada delegates in Vancouver this morning.

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Big Sky State makes play to be a CO2 importer

May 4, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From NYTimes.com |
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) has some big ideas for the role the Big Sky State could play in helping to create cleaner skies in a carbon-limited future.

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Canada aims to end traditional coal power: report

May 1, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Reuters |
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government plans new regulations that will effectively phase out traditional coal-fired power stations, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said in an interview published on Wednesday.
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Carbon copy in Ottawa

April 28, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From TheChronicleHerald.ca |
THE HARPER government spent its first term saying Canada couldn’t afford to get too far ahead of the U.S. in forcing industry to reduce carbon emissions. Now it’s having to admit we can’t afford to be left too far behind.

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B.C. mayors want to fund transit with carbon tax revenue

April 22, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From TheGlobeandmail.com |
VANCOUVER — Lower Mainland mayors, struggling with the dilemma of how to pay for the next decade’s half-billion dollars in transit improvements, plan to make their problem a campaign issue by pushing the provincial parties to give them carbon-tax revenue to pay the bill.

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Cap-and-trade better than carbon tax: NDP leader

April 22, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From TheStarPhoenix.com |
VANCOUVER — NDP Leader Carole James said Tuesday she has a better plan for the environment despite some environmentalists’ claims her decision to axe the carbon tax initiated by the Liberal government of Premier Gordon Campbell is wrong.

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Media Advisory – Aeroplan To Match Miles For Carbon Offsets on Earth Day

April 21, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From NewsWire.ca |
Aeroplan encourages members to offset their carbon footprint by matching
miles redeemed for offsets by 25%

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Canadian government funds eight carbon-capture technology projects

April 19, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From JournalofCommerce.com |
The federal government has put up $140 million for eight projects aimed at refining and proving carbon capture and storage technology.

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B.C. carbon tax fuels strange political shifts and possible alliances

April 18, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From WinnipegFreePress.com |
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Marginal parties that have spent their time on the political sidelines are embracing a raging debate over the B.C. carbon tax that threatens to splinter traditional voting patterns in the province.

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Tiny Saskatchewan town turns carbon trap into cash

April 14, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From TheStar.com |
WEYBURN, Sask. – Carbon dioxide has breathed new life into this small southern Saskatchewan city.

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Don’t micro manage carbon reduction

April 14, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From BCLocalNews.com |
Dear councillors: I know that many of you now understand that global warming is a real threat to our society and I urge you to act to avoid the worst impacts of climate change on the Cowichan Valley.

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Canada to Start Emissions Trading in 2012, Point Carbon Says

April 10, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Bloomberg.com |
April 9 (Bloomberg) — Canada will probably start a system for trading greenhouse-gas credits in 2012, Point Carbon reported, citing Carbon Capital Management Chief Executive Officer Errick Willis.

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Province to investigate the development of forest-based carbon offsets

April 8, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Daily Business News |
The Pacific Carbon Trust, a provincial crown corporation established as part of B.C.’s Climate Action Plan, is examining the viability of developing forest-based carbon offsets.

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Greenhouse businesses gain from carbon offsets

April 8, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Tri-City News |
Four Lower Mainland greenhouses and a cement plant will get energy technology upgrades to cut their carbon emissions through funding from the province’s Pacific Carbon Trust.

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Our green carbon future

April 5, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From WinnipegFreePress.com |
At a recent speech to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, national Chief Phil Fontaine made the strong case that indigenous peoples, as the current and historic stewards of vast tracts of lands, could be key players in a new green-collar economy based on the protection of Canada’s boreal forests. Manitobans would [...]

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For many NHLPA members, carbon offsets are just the beginning

April 3, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From AM1150.ca |
TORONTO – NHL players are “going green” in a big way, due in part to the success of the NHLPA Carbon Neutral Challenge program. Players are taking more action in their own lives to reduce their environmental footprint. With over 420 NHLPA members signing up for the second year of the [...]

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Montana, Saskatchewan work for carbon-capture demo

April 1, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From CTV.ca |
GREAT FALLS, Mont — Montana’s Gov. Brian Schweitzer and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall are turning to taxpayers to help pay for a carbon sequestration demonstration project.

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Fighting words on carbon from our friends to the south

March 29, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From The Vancouver Sun |
Can Barack Obama save the planet and his country’s beleaguered economy at the same time? That’s the hope of those in his administration supporting carbon trading, the mechanism designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are warming up the Earth’s atmosphere.

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Energy companies get federal funds for carbon capture

March 27, 2009 Canada

|Sourced From Metro News.ca |
In spite of the recession, it appears the federal government has a good deal of money to spread around for research into greenhouse gas emissions.

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Harper government announces funding for eight carbon capture projects

March 27, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Google |
CALGARY — The Harper government has given the “green” light to eight projects aimed at developing carbon capture and storage technologies.

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Alberta receives prestigious award for carbon capture and storage

March 23, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From The Energy News |
Edmonton… Alberta is being recognized by a U.S. energy and environment organization for its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through carbon capture and storage technology.

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Scrap nuclear, bring in carbon tax: Green Party leader

March 15, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From The Sault Star |
Frank de Jong wants Ontario’s Liberal government to look west when preparing its upcoming provincial budget.

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Sask. ‘a leader’ in carbon capture

March 14, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Leader-Post |
REGINA — Saskatchewan is positioned to take the lead in addressing one of the issues U.S. President Barack Obama discussed with Prime Minister Stephen Harper during his visit to Canada in February.

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Controlling Carbon a Bureaucrat’s Dream

March 9, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Canada Free Press |
“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.” Mary McCarthy.
In the battle for proper climate science free from politics there are two levels at which bureaucracy is a modern form of despotism. In most countries it is in departments of meteorology, weather, climate or [...]

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Obama’s doomed carbon plan should please Ottawa

March 7, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From The Star |
U.S. President Barack Obama’s climate change plan is, by his country’s standards, a dreamy wish list.

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Patriot Energy Receives Praise From Carbon Credit Markets and Environmentalist Alike

March 2, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From MSNBC |
MONTREAL, QUEBEC – Patriot Energy Corp. (PINKSHEETS: PGYC) announced today that shortly after releasing its business model, the company has received tremendous positive feedback from carbon credit market professionals and environmentalist alike.

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Grit boss urges CO2 capture

March 1, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From The Calgary Sun |
EDMONTON — The leader of the federal Opposition says Canada’s top level of government has a role in making Alberta’s oilsands industry sustainable.

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Environment minister says carbon capture already a proven technology

February 24, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Canadian Press |
CALGARY — With UN talks on climate change scheduled for Copenhagen this December, work on a new clean-energy strategy and how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will begin immediately with the U.S. administration, federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Friday.

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Discussions take place on CO2

February 22, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From The Observer |
Curious about those heady plans for Canada and the U. S. to trap nasty greenhouse gas emissions underground? Don’t hold your own carbon dioxide.

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Saddling Obama with carbon talk

February 16, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From The Star |
Canadians are talking again about the environment. Just not to each other.

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Canadian athletes press for carbon neutral Olympics

February 13, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Pique |
More than 70 Canadian athletes have signed a letter to 2010 Olympic boss John Furlong urging him to make sure the Games are carbon neutral.

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Carbon capture on Tory agenda

February 11, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Calgary Herald |
Despite its new cash-strapped reality, the Alberta government is pushing ahead with a $2-billion pledge to kick-start capturing and storing carbon emissions from coal power plants, heavy-oil upgraders and potentially the oilsands.

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Canada failing on CO2 cuts: audit

February 8, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Google |
OTTAWA (AFP) — The Canadian government’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and other pollution at a cost of more than two billion dollars have not produced any measurable results, a watchdog said Thursday.

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Canada, U.S. need joint approach to carbon emissions: Study

February 5, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Canada.com |
OTTAWA — Canada needs to act in unison with the United States on cutting carbon emissions in order to ease the impact on the country’s energy-intensive business sector, an economic think-tank said this week.

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CO2 Solution Applauds Canadian Government for Budget Commitment to Carbon Capture

February 3, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From PRNewswire |
CO2 Solution Provides Made-in-Canada Biomimetic Technology Solution for
Carbon Capture

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Cash and tax breaks for the carbon agenda

January 28, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Globe and Mail |
OTTAWA — Canadian energy companies will get both direct assistance and tax breaks to develop carbon-capture-and-storage technology that promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants and oil sands projects.

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Research and Markets: Alarming Levels of CO2 Emissions in the Atmosphere Have Led To Emergence of Innovative Technology Namely Carbon Sequestration

January 25, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Market Watch |
DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan 22, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/13e008/carbon_sequestrati) has announced the addition of GlobalData ’s new report “Carbon Sequestration – A Significant Prospect Awaits Canada” to their offering.

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Kap launches first community carbon credit project

January 23, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From The Sudbury Star |
Thanks to a local entrepreneur, Kapuskasing will likely be the first community in Canada to be involved in a plan to sell carbon credits.

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Ash City and IBM Reduce Carbon Footprint by 50 Percent With New Data Centre

January 18, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From PR-CANADA.net |
Corporate clothing provider Ash City has teamed with IBM (NYSE:IBM) to build an energy-efficient, cost-effective data centre for its new headquarters building. The new facility adds capacity, while reducing energy consumption by half.

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The Cost of Carbon

January 8, 2009 Canada

| Sourced From Alternatives Journal |
Get used to uncertainty, and allow government, not traders, to set the price of carbon.

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Dion, Campbell felt sting of carbon tax

December 28, 2008 Canada

| Sourced From The Province |
Two words played a big role in politics in 2008 — carbon tax.
While the words may be environmentally correct, in an age of political correctness they are politically incorrect and dangerous.
Ask Stephane Dion.

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Canada to Impose Carbon Cuts If Government Falls (Update1)

December 11, 2008 Canada

|Sourced From Bloomberg.com|
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — Canada’s opposition parties would implement tough carbon-dioxide emissions targets if they vote to topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government next year, the country’s Green Party leader said.

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Canada’s gov’t to consult with provinces on climate talks

December 2, 2008 Canada

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (Reuters) – Canada’s environment minister said on Friday the federal government would give the country’s provinces a consultative role in any negotiations with the United States on a North American pact to cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Ottawa urged to match $2b carbon initiative

November 28, 2008 Canada

| Sourced From Canada.com |
Premier Ed Stelmach called on the federal government Thursday to cough up a matching $2 billion for carbon capture and storage technology, the same day Ottawa rolled out a series of austerity measures during tough economic times.

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Coal a natural for carbon capture: Lowry

November 28, 2008 Canada

| Sourced From Edmonton Journal |
EDMONTON – Coal will remain the primary fuel for power generation in Alberta, and would be the easiest target for carbon-capture technology, says the president of city-owned Epcor Utilities.

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Canada: Carbon fight tones down

November 26, 2008 Canada

| Sourced From Calgary Sun |
Energy Minister Mel Knight struck a conciliatory tone yesterday, saying there is “common ground” between Alberta’s and the federal government’s approaches to cutting carbon emissions. He also said the slowdown of several projects in the oilpatch is not entirely bad news.

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Alberta carbon capture just PR, critics say

November 21, 2008 Canada

| Sourced From Canada News |
EDMONTON – Planning to capture carbon and bury it underground is Alberta’s key weapon in the fight against its own international image as a greenhouse gas-emitting oilsands monster.

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Rae, Ignatieff cool to carbon tax

November 20, 2008 Canada

| Sourced From Vancouver Sun |
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidates Bob Rae and Michael Ignatieff would ditch the Green Shift carbon tax, outgoing leader Stephane Dion’s signature policy, on grounds it was rejected by voters on election day. 

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New CO2 pipeline planned for heartland

November 12, 2008 Canada

By Paul Grigaitis – Sourced From Fort Saskatchewan Record

A planned pipeline that will connect CO2 suppliers in the heartland with an enhanced oil recovery project in the Leduc and Nisku area will be an incentive for future industry to develop in the heartland, said Susan Cole, president of Enhance Energy.

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Epcor Utilities to further flesh out details of carbon capture projects (Epcor-CCS)

November 10, 2008 Canada

Sourced From OilWeek

EDMONTON _ Epcor Utilities Inc. says two of its carbon capture and storage proposals are moving into their next phase, now that the Alberta government has selected the ones it wants to consider further.

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RBC pioneering CO2 trade in teething Canada market

November 9, 2008 Canada

TORONTO (Reuters) – RBC Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of the Royal Bank of Canada, is forging ahead in Canada’s still-nascent carbon market despite its massive policy risks, a director and trader at RBCCM said.
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Viterra Signs Carbon Credit Supply Agreement With ENMAX Energy

November 8, 2008 Canada

REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN, Nov 7, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX News Network) — Viterra Inc. (TSX:VT) is pleased to announce it has signed a ten-year agreement to supply carbon offset credits to ENMAX Energy Corporation (”ENMAX Energy”), Alberta’s leading competitive electricity retailer.

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Eden Mills gone carbon neutral

November 6, 2008 Canada

It is now more crucial then ever to take part in reducing, reusing and recycling.
“Recent greenhouse gas emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of control, with great dangers for humans and other creatures,” according to Royal Society.

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More Canadian companies disclose more complete information on carbon emissions to investors

November 5, 2008 Canada

CNW Telbec – Canada’s largest companies are providing more and better information about their greenhouse gas emissions and their management strategies to deal with them according to the results of this year’s Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report, released today in Toronto.

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Unlike Dion, carbon tax won’t likely cost our Liberal Leader his job

November 3, 2008 Canada

VANCOUVER — When federal Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion introduced in June his plan for a new carbon tax, he hoped he could ride it to electoral victory. Instead, the Liberal Green Shift brought his party humiliating defeat and led to Mr. Dion’s announced resignation.

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New Swindon rail terminal to cut congestion and carbon emissions

November 1, 2008 Canada

A new rail terminal that will help to tackle local congestion and substantially reduce carbon dioxide emissions was opened by Transport Minister Andrew Adonis today.

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B.C. Liberal members push back on carbon tax

October 31, 2008 Canada

Delegates to the B.C. Liberal Party convention voted strongly Friday to investigate a “rural living tax credit” that would offset the cost of the province’s carbon tax for people who face longer travel distances and colder winters.

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Adjust carbon tax to lift burden on poor, think-tank says

October 31, 2008 Canada

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s controversial new carbon tax places an unfair burden on low-income families and needs to be reworked, according to a report released yesterday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

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Expert offers tactics for designing carbon-neutral buildings

October 26, 2008 Canada

The design professions are facing a pretty stiff challenge to meet government targets for carbon neutral buildings, according to Stephen Pope.

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Carbon taxes and cap-and-trade not that different: report

October 24, 2008 Canada

Canadian politicians overstate the differences between carbon taxes and cap-and-trade programs as tools to reduce greenhouse gases, a new report suggests.

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Alberta’s carbon initiative captures international interest

October 23, 2008 Canada

Energy Minister to meet political, business and investment leaders in London
Edmonton… Advancing research and development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies will highlight Energy Minister Mel Knight’s trip to London, England October 25-31.

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When all’s said and done, the carbon tax is toast

October 22, 2008 Canada

The demise of Stéphane Dion has killed any national attempt to tax carbon-producing products. Even if such a tax were offset by lower personal and corporate taxes, Canadians apparently won’t accept this way of tackling the challenge of greenhouse-gas emissions that warm the atmosphere.

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Carbon Tax Suffers In Canadian Elections

October 22, 2008 Canada

Those who support the idea of a carbon tax as a simpler more effective alternative to a cap-and-trade system for reducing greenhouse gases, were likely disappointed by the results of federal elections held in Canada last week.

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Vivian Vaughan: West Vancouver must reduce carbon footprint

October 22, 2008 Canada

The world around us is changing, and our vision of the future cannot be created without recognizing the need to reduce our carbon footprint. Living with nature, and environmental protection are of paramount importance to this community, and provide the framework for planning our collective future.

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Nova Scotia earmarks $2.6 million for projects to cut harmful emissions

October 21, 2008 Canada

HALIFAX — Funding of $2.6 million has been approved for the latest round of projects in Nova Scotia that aim to reduce harmful air emissions.

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Cowichan Carbon Busters meet to reduce emissions, help environment

October 20, 2008 Canada

The Cowichan Carbon Busters meet regularly with the objective of helping people make a plan for their families to reduce their carbon emissions as quickly as possible.
We want to show that anyone can start a carbon reduction journey. Some families may try to reduce carbon emissions quickly, perhaps 50 per cent in a few years. [...]

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Clinton praises BC carbon tax as great economic generator

October 18, 2008 Canada

VANCOUVER — Gordon Campbell, the embattled Premier of British Columbia, received some big-name support yesterday afternoon for his controversial carbon tax: Bill Clinton, former president of the United States.
Mr. Clinton called Mr. Campbell’s efforts to combat climate change “the greatest economic generator you could embrace.”
“I know he’s taken some heat,” Mr. Clinton said of Mr. [...]

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Alberta, Shell team up on carbon capture

October 18, 2008 Canada

The province has joined forces with energy giant Shell in exploring the possibility of storing carbon dioxide deep underground in Alberta’s unique sub-surface formations.
“Carbon sequestration is a globally recognized way to help with the carbon emissions,” advanced education and technology minister Doug Horner said of the technology also known as carbon capture.
A $20-million project – [...]

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