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Canada's Kyoto Mess

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By Sarah Pullman
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There’s a great piece by our friend Mitchell Anderson over at The Tyee this week. It’s a look at Canada and our relationship to Kyoto, and what role the oil companies have to play in thatโ€ฆ specifically, โ€œa deal quietly penned between Ottawa and Canadian oil industry in 2002 that essentially killed any chance Canada had to meet our obligations under Kyoto agreement.โ€

There’s a section about the oil sands, also, with a statistic that kind of took my breath away. Namely, that โ€œthe oil sands now consume 600 million cubic feet of natural gas per day โ€“ enough to heat 3.2 million Canadian homes.โ€ Umโ€ฆ Houston? We have a problem.

As usual at the Tyee, there’s lots of avid debate at the end. Kyoto sure is an issue that gets people goingโ€ฆ

By Sarah Pullman

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