Harper policies to balance environment and economy

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December 14, 2006 - Stephen Harper describes his plan to make Canada a leader in environmental technology as the single largest industrial initiative in Canadas history, promising details by the end of March 2007.

Harpers plan favours domestic investments into new technologies over the purchase of carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol.

"Its necessary to have environmentally sustained growth in the long-term. And there is a tremendous opportunity for Canada, with its energy super-power status, to use that to become a leader in environmental technology.

That will not be achieved if the other parties had their way and simply transferred money overseas as a way of saying they are dealing with greenhouse gasses.

We have a plan that would put those investments here in Canada and apply Canadian technology to the reduction of greenhouse gasses.

We think in the long term that will balance economic growth and environmental sustainability."

- Prime Minster Stephen Harper

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[JCherniak]

What does this change? He still refers to "so called greenhouse gases".

[PrimarySource888]

And what do you conclude from that phrase?  In the full context of his comments it is clear that he isn't questioning the existance of 'greenhouse gasses' or the underlying science. It is intellectually dishonest for the Liberals to take this out of context, especially when the full context outlines a vision for environmental protection and outlines concrete action on the issue. Surely Dion's commitment to the environement should outweigh petty politics?

[macrodactyl]

The idea that you can balance the faith based economy of the Harper ideology with the environment is a distraction & myth. Environmentalism is not the right way to deal with 'environmental' issues. Ecology is the science that can best handle this problem. Ecology is the scientific way of understanding the economy. Environmentalism breeds the concepts that Harper talks about at the end - using technology to reduce greenhouse gases. Biodiversity trumps technodiversity. Invest in natural capital.

[Camus376]

you baster you did not even plan any things to make a planet less polluted so do to hell steven harper

[xxPowerOnxx]

What about the carbon and oil consumption down significantly. We need to apply technology as it is well explained in my channel.

[attorp]

It just boggles my mind how so many armchair experts think they know more than the thousands of scientists who have researched the subject and had their work work approved through the peer-review process. Do you really think scientists like James Hansen and Andrew Weaver have not examined previous events in Earth's history? Get real folks! Stop spewing hot air and show us some peer-reviewed science that refutes anthropogenic warming.

[a1mint]

In prehistoric days the atmosphere was hot and harsh. Plants and bio-action ended up storing what was in the atmosphere into the ground. Humans are digging it up and putting it back into the atmosphere. Doesn't it make sense that we're then restoring the atmosphere to prehistoric conditions?

[dstraycat]

... In all cases, heat must be applied in order to release Greenhouse Gases, including CO2. So you see, it is impossible for CO2 to drive global temperature. The temperature "Heat from the Sun" drives climate change... It is impossibe to work it the other way around.

[dstraycat]

Now, back to the bottle of pop... When the bottle of pop gets warm the gas inside makes it very difficult to unscrew the cap as there is a great deal of pressure inside the bottle... Applying heat to a liquid forces the gases out of the liquid... Then there is something called evaporation... Applying heat to a liquid, like water creates water vapour... That is the #1 Greenhouse Gas. That's right, water Vapour accounts for 95% of all greenhouse gases.

[dstraycat]

Gaud... I have never come across such a "science illiterate". Take a bottle of pop and chill it. The colder it gets the more gas it can hold. The cap screws off easily... replace the cap and let it stand allowing it to warm... The warmer a liquid gets the less gas it can hold. When the ocean gets warm it lets off CO2. When it gets colder the ocean absorbs CO2... Get it?

[grosbonnet]

you may be right. but again, for whatever reasons measures are taken, we have to reduce our consumption of everything and stop being economically counter-productive (big companies earn the money, then taxpayers have to decontaminate lands and care for sick people). companies are only waiting for incentives and laws to change their scheme of production. they know they'll have to do it sooner or later, they prefer later.

[grosbonnet]

you are right. BUT there are so many other reasons than global warming to take measures for the survival of ecosystems and species and human beings' well being that there's no excuse to keep on living like there'll never be an end to the resources. when my grandfather was a lumberjack in ontario and quebec, everybody thought there were no limits to the wood they could get.