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Durban Must Deliver
As we all settle in for the 17th Conference of the Parties and take advantage of all that Durban has to offer, ECO interrupts our regular programme for this special bulletin: The world’s effort to mitigate dangerous climate change cannot wait any […]
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Canada sweeps Fossil of the Day awards (with some help from the UK)
3rd place Fossil of the Day goes to the UK. The 3rd place fossil of the day is awarded to the UK, following revelations that UK Ministers have done a deal with the Canadian government to support the entry of […]
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Canada’s ‘ethical oil’ push gets tarred in British paper
Canada made the front pages in Britain today, but not in a way that will do much for the national image. “UK secretly helping Canada push its ‘dirty’ fuel,” reads the top-of-page headline in Monday’s Guardian. In the story picked up […]
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Canadian Government negotiating in bad faith with plan to abandon Kyoto
For immediate release (Durban, South Africa) The Canadian Government is planning to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol next month. As the majority of countries have arrived in Durban in good faith to negotiate a second commitment period of the […]
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Europe is not discriminating against Canada with its proposed new fuel quality legislation that would brand oilsands oil as dirtier than conventional crude, says a member of the European Parliament visiting Montreal Friday to meet with Quebec politicians and journalists. […]
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OTTAWA — A Greek politician visiting Canada to talk about the EU’s climate policies will pay his own travel costs, says a spokeswoman for Climate Action Network Canada, which co-ordinated the trip. The coalition of Canadian environment, labour and faith-based […]
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Who’s holding us back? How carbon-intensive industry is preventing effective climate change legislation
Greenpeace released a report singling out the Canadian government’s collusion with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and tar sands companies like Shell and their intentions of derailing clean energy legislation in the US and Europe, and ultimately discouraging international […]
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OTTAWA – “It is valid to want to protect jobs in Canada and choose the way you want to grow, but nobody should try to stop another sovereign state from protecting its citizens from catastrophic climate change,” Mr. Arsenis said […]
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Canada Should Fight a Pollution Battle Instead of a PR Battle
In the lead up to the next round of UN climate talks, instead of taking responsibility for their own pollution problem, the Canadian Government is focusing on a full scale public relations and diplomatic campaign to ensure no door is […]
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