The news this morning is a little encouraging in regards to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but what's coming out about deep off shore drilling in Canada and Green House Gas targets isn't. In this morning's Le Devoir Louis-Giles Francoeur writes of the way that the Harper government has just drastically lowered the targets for GES: by 2012 the Kyoto target will be surpassed by 35 %. The news came in an unpublicized announcement--Francoeur says there was no press release--that showed up yesterday on the Ministry of Environment's website. You have to look carefully to see where to download the pdf document: it's there on the right side of the page. Please note that the Alberta oil sands are one of the biggest contributors to our GES emissions.
Then yesterday The Globe and Mail compared the BP disaster with projects now underway off Newfoundland and Labrador. Chevron is currently drilling a well 2,600 meters undersea, compared to the 1,500 meters for BP. This story follows another The Globe published on Tuesday about how questions are being raised about what would happen in case of a spill in the Arctic.
Clearly, there are some very chancey operations going down. Without a doubt regulations must be tightened up and enforced, but in the long run we're going to have to find ways to do without petroleum.
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