Has Canadian Environment Minister Had a Climate Change Epiphany?

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Enviro Minister Rona AmbroseThe National Post, through which the Canadian Conservative government has been floating all its climate change policy trial balloons lately, now suggests that โ€œTories to regulate industries for CO2.โ€

This would be fabulous news if it were true, and not just โ€œpositive spin on a made-in-Canada solution.โ€

ย But this comment, by Pierre Alvarez, president of the Canadian Association Petroleum Producers (CAPP), suggests the government is a long way from rustling feathers in the Canadian oil patch. Alvarez is quoted in the Post story saying, โ€œWe have been going forward on the assumption that CO2, as well as toxics and other pollutants, would be covered in the (Tories’ new) plan.โ€ But he said he did not necessarily believe that regulation meant a cap on emissions. โ€œYou may have to have targets but it does not necessarily mean a cap, and certainly not a hard cap.โ€

You can imagine a soft cap, one that the industry could wear backwards or throw in the closet when it gets warm out.

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