Do we support emission reductions credits? Alliance with the Liberals?
Can someone translate from political speak what I'm reading in these articles?
The first is from the National Post in regard to emission reduction credits proposed by the Alberta government. What good would this do if they don't actually reduce the amount of emissions? Elizabeth May seems impressed but I don't see what there is to be impressed about.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html... National Post article
Where is the Star getting these ideas? It is one thing to say that you might prefer to have five MPs in the house that will be receptive to Liberals but are we seeking some sort of deal with Dion before we get there? Personally I hope not and hope that this is just made up theory on the part of the reporter. But I'm receptive to listening to arguments.
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/190270
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THere are some credits outside the company
Lambton Kent Middlesex EDA (SW Ontario)
If my company converts to using energy created by a wind farm, but my own company does not change the number of kwh it uses, have we made some prograss? Not sure? Well, if my company built its own wind farm and so purchased a lot less electrical power, even sold a whack of green power to the grid?
The latter example we can see the company itself is cutting its purchased units of energy, so wow, really good, but just buying green energy and claiming the credits the wind farm generates? Alright it may be a stretch. How about my company buys a wind farm rather than building it, now instead of buying power I am just buying stock in the wind farm company. Did my buying stock in the wind farm company instead of buying the electricity from it make a difference?
When my company builds or buys the wind farm and sells its surplus green power to another company, should there not be credit for having reduced someone else's purchases of dirty power, and should the purchaser not be able to use those credits? If everyone buys only green power have we not done what we set out to do?
Don't think so? Well do I have to buy the other company to make this point? Then we have the usage of the newly bought company reducing its energy purchases as a result of my company building or buying that wind farm... or logically if We buy the power from some other company that builds one.
Now there are a lot of possible ways to earn carbon credits that may not really repersent any action to cut carbon dioxide emissions. That should be part of an audit, to see that there has been a real measurable improvement? Or do we give credit for adopting new methods with the expectation of improvement?