Thursday, November 12, 2009

Earth's Worst Climate Change Laggards. Guess Who?







USA Coal VS Canada Tar Sands? - America's dirty little secret

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/americas-dirty-little-secret/article1331242/

Influence wielded by coal-producing states - 25 of them - is the big reason the U.S. is a climate-change laggard
Jeffrey Sachs - Sachs is a professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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TAR SANDS - Canada's Mordor - Council of Canadians

http://www.canadians.org/energy/issues/tarsands/index.html

“To me, the tar sands are Canada’s Mordor. The air is foul, the water is being drained and poisoned and giant tailings ponds line the Athabasca river” – Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians Chairperson and Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the UN General Assembly

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Canada's Sorry Climate Change Policies - Sierra Club Canada

http://www.one-blue-marble.com/canada-and-climate-change.html

Under Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative government, Canada has become an international pariah at climate change summits.”


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