*"The opposition parties in Ottawa have proposed "a $30-a-tonne penalty on companies that don't meet greenhouse-gas reduction targets."
*"Green Lane's own web site that declares the landfill produces up to 550,000 tonnes of methane gas per year."
Is methane not one of the culprits when it comes to global warning?
Seeing we own the landfill site won't the citizens of Toronto be responsible to pay the penalty?
Will government enterprises be exempt from the Kyota Accord?
If not what is it going to cost the taxpayers of Toronto?
I know your flunkies on City Council and you have a problem with math so let me do the math for you:
$30/ton x 500,000 tonnes = $15,000,000/year.
Clean air bill upsets Tories
March 29, 2007
Canadian Press
OTTAWA – The federal opposition parties are claiming victory after overhauling the Conservative government's clean air bill.
But Tory MPs on the Commons committee that finished the rewrite today aren't happy with the altered product.
That means the fate of the environmental legislation is up in the air.
The government could choose to shelve it, or potentially use it as a trigger for a federal election.
Among the major modifications is a statement in support of the Kyoto Accord, as well as a proposed $30-a-tonne penalty on companies that don't meet greenhouse-gas reduction targets.
Environment Minister John Baird criticized the changes as amounting to a carbon tax.
He said he wants time to study the amended bill before he decides what to do.
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