Baird Spins for Big Oil/Industry: We’ll fix it, but taxpayers should pay for it
Today Dion promised to make Big Oil/Industry pay for excess greenhouse gas emissions they produce taking Canadian resources out of the ground/sea. The money will be paid into a holding fund and industry/big oil can use this fund to help them develop projects and technologies that will reduce pollution/green house gases. This seems like a much more sensible policy for Canadians than handing 155 million of taxpayer money to the coal industry/big oil to conduct a study on reducing emissions. I think that the structure Dion is suggesting will quickly increase innnovation in reducing greenhouse gases because industry is going to want their money back as quickly as possible.
I watched dumbfounded when Baird tried to spin Dion’s plan as a money grab from oil/industry. The globe and mail reported,
Environment Minister John Baird dismissed the Liberal’s party’s newly announced climate change plan as a money grab and a weak effort
Does he actually think Canadians are going to buy that? I think we have a pretty good idea of just how much money big oil/industry is making these days. I sincerely doubt the Cons will find much sympathy with Canadians on this issue.
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March 18th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Baird knows there’s a crowd of loyal brain-free drones that will trust whatever someone with “Conservative” stamped on their door tells them.