Stephen Harper’s conservative government just pulled out of the Kyoto treaty. He knew there was no way that they could achieve the unrealistic carbon reduction goals and didn’t want to have to fork over billions in penalties that a bunch of leftists from a former government had committed their nation to. Plus, they are making a mint on the Tar Sands, and that’s not going to stop.

From MSNBC here with thanks to ThisAintHell:

Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change Monday, saying the accord won’t help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country.

The protocol, initially adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, is aimed at fighting global warming. Canada’s previous Liberal government signed the accord but did little to implement it and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government never embraced it.

The move saves Canada $14 billion in penalties for not achieving its Kyoto targets.

“To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada,” Kent said.

Harper’s Conservative government is reluctant to hurt Canada’s booming oil sands sector, which is the country’s fastest growing source of greenhouse gases and a reason it has reneged on its Kyoto commitments.

Canada produces “barely 2 percent” of global emissions and said the previous Liberal government signed onto Kyoto in 1997 without any intention of meeting its targets.

Way to go Canada! Just when I was beginning to think that your nation was maggoty with leftists and mad bombers, you go and do something smart.


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