This week LUSH, makers and marketers of “fresh handmade cosmetics” launched a surprising, uprovoked attack on Canada’s oil sands industry. Check it out at http://www.lush.ca/shop/tarsands/ In typical holier-than-thou language of environmentalists, they call the oil sands “the most destructive project on earth”, citing a litany of innacurate and unfounded accusations, claiming they just had to take [...]
The leaves have fallen, the snow has blown, the flowers have blossomed and the heat waves are back. What better time to take a look back at the year-that-was at Queen’s Park as the legislature prepares to recess for yet another summer. Here are but a few points of reflection – in numbers – from [...]
Last week… with shock… I read an article about a speech by David Suzuki in which he said, in essence, that politicians who question or stand in the way of implementing the Kyoto Protocol… “should go to jail for what they’re not doing right now What our government is not doing is a criminal [...]
By: Fleishman-Hillard, Brussels Fleishman-Hillard Canada The Copenhagen Climate Conference did not meet most expectations. After two weeks of negotiations and several weeks of media coverage and NGO hype, world leaders delivered a three-page non-binding political declaration (the ‘Copenhagen Accord’) that fails to provide a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, expiring in 2012. The text [...]
Thoughts on the COP15 Cop-Out
