How is Canadas Kyoto position affected by the NAFTA-oil & gas problem?
I think one of the reasons to be concerned about all of this is that we’re fueling the voracious appetites of US consumers in all of this, but we’re also, by committing ourselves over the long-term to export the majority of our natural gas resources, for example from Canada to US markets, denying ourselves access to this fuel as a means to assist our own industries to make a transition from relatively carbon intensive to relatively less intensive fuels in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and so that has I think some pretty dire consequences and of course in all of this, we’re exporting Canadian energy resources to a country that hasn’t embraced Kyoto, and isn’t willing to acknowledge an obligation to deal with this enormous and disproportionant appetite it has for the worlds energy resources. With it’s 6% of the worlds population consuming about 25% of its energy resources. We know the present rates of consumption are un-sustainable. We know that there has to be a more equitable distr
