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The effects of global warming are getting worse every day.
Canadians are saying loud and clear: a lot more needs to be done to protect our environment from the effects of global warming due to climate change.
Canada has a new Minister of the Environment, John Baird. Tell Minister Baird that Canada’s Government must set absolute emissions targets on the biggest industrial polluters. It’s the best way he can prove he is truly serious about fighting climate change.
- While households account for roughly 25% of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions, industry accounts for about 50%
- In the last two years alone, the five biggest oil companies in the world recorded a combined $207 billion (US) in profits
- Canadian energy giant EnCana booked some of the biggest profits in Canadian history -- $5 billion (US) in the first nine months of 2006!
Don’t let the oil and gas companies cry poor while they remain some of the biggest contributors to global warming today.
Industry as a whole accounts for roughly half of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions and its contribution to the effort to reduce emissions should be in line with its contribution to the problem. Mandatory greenhouse gas reductions by industry must be a fair share of the reductions that Canada as a whole has to make by 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol.
Read the full petition and sign it today.
Sincerely,
Nature Canada |
