2013年2月18日星期一

Canada leads U.S. on cutting back the use of dirty coal

Canada can teach the United States some lessons on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Sunday in a blunt rejoinder to recent chiding by the Obama administration on climate change.Baird told The Canadian Press that the U.S. should actually be following Canada's lead on working to cut back on the use of coal-fired electricity generation.Baird was responding to U.The mischievous twin brothers Eddie and Menu Titanium Keychain debut for the tutorial, as these opossums teach new participants the information and skills needed to productively progress through each region of the game.Similarly, in summers, a new ice keeps on Magnetic toe ring along with the good water thus released creates one particular great deal of twist.S. Ambassador David Jacobson who told The Canadian Press separately last week that President Barack Obama's State of the Union address calling for swift action on climate change should also be interpreted as a challenge to Ottawa. "We adopted the same goals and objectives in terms of climate change … We worked with the Obama administration and harmonized vehicle emission standards, light truck standards," Baird said Sunday in a telephone interview from Lima,In addition to silk, other precious commodities made their way along this route. Traders from the china tour packages and other precious metals and stones, ivory and glass. Peru."We're also taking concrete direct action with respect to dirty, coal fired electricity generation."Maybe the United States could join Canada on that file."Baird was mindful that environmentalists were descending Sunday on Washington for a major protest of Canada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry Alberta oilsands bitumen to the U.S. Gulf coast. Following a similar protest last year, Obama postponed the controversial Keystone decision until after the November presidential election.The Harper government has for years said it would remain in lockstep with the U.S. on climate change, but Baird said Canada has gone even further on coal.Baird's defence of Canada's environmental record appears to be part of a renewed initiative by the Harper government to burnish Canada's climate credentials as Keystone's future once again hangs in the balance.By about 300 AD, it was produced in India and by 550 AD had made its way to the silk road culture tour and from there on to Europe. Tales of smuggled silkworms, court intrigues."We're the only country in the world that's committed to getting out of the dirty coal electricity generation business," Baird said. "These are real meaningful steps that will either meet or even exceed the work that's been done thus far in the United States."A spokesman for Greenpeace Canada,One of three true gems you'll find in this travel to xinjiang. You can get there by train, car or a daily flight from Tashkent, but I'd recommend the first two choices. however, said the federal government was not responsible for the coal generation reductions."John Baird shouldn't try to take credit for Ontario's phase out of coal-fired electricity, although environmentalists would welcome federal assistance in making progress in other provinces," Keith Stewart said in an email.

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