Comments on: Why “Intensity” is a crock http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/10/17/why-intensity-is-a-crock/ News, Insights, and Humour Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:26:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy » Blog Archive » Calvert Cares dot com http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/10/17/why-intensity-is-a-crock/#comment-53055 Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy » Blog Archive » Calvert Cares dot com Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/10/17/why-intensity-is-a-crock/#comment-53055 [...] Sask Party is measuring the net loss, and Quennell is looking at growth intensity. It’s the same misdirection/half-truth that oil companies like Suncor are using when they suggest that they are reducing their pollution levels, because the rate at which they are [...] [...] Sask Party is measuring the net loss, and Quennell is looking at growth intensity. It’s the same misdirection/half-truth that oil companies like Suncor are using when they suggest that they are reducing their pollution levels, because the rate at which they are [...]

]]> By: Saskboy http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/10/17/why-intensity-is-a-crock/#comment-48875 Saskboy Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:12:21 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/10/17/why-intensity-is-a-crock/#comment-48875 Way to address the topic of the post Patrick. Are you cool with companies and politicians spinning about how much they are "reducing" pollution while they actually increase it. If it's something to be proud of, or at least not ashamed of, why do they spin it? Ranting about the oilsands is a part of reducing GHGs in Canada. Unless people are complaining about it, they'll NEVER consider doing something to reduce the pollution. Way to address the topic of the post Patrick. Are you cool with companies and politicians spinning about how much they are “reducing” pollution while they actually increase it. If it’s something to be proud of, or at least not ashamed of, why do they spin it?

Ranting about the oilsands is a part of reducing GHGs in Canada. Unless people are complaining about it, they’ll NEVER consider doing something to reduce the pollution.

]]> By: Patrick Ross http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/10/17/why-intensity-is-a-crock/#comment-48861 Patrick Ross Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:41:48 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/10/17/why-intensity-is-a-crock/#comment-48861 I would suggest that people who want to rant about the oilsands should volunteer to do their part: stop driving your cars and heating your homes, folks: those two things account for the vast majority of GHGs in Canada. I would suggest that people who want to rant about the oilsands should volunteer to do their part: stop driving your cars and heating your homes, folks: those two things account for the vast majority of GHGs in Canada.

]]> By: Mound of Sound http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/10/17/why-intensity-is-a-crock/#comment-48773 Mound of Sound Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:51:53 +0000 http://www.abandonedstuff.com/2007/10/17/why-intensity-is-a-crock/#comment-48773 We need to put our own house in order on this one. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the Athabasca Tar Sands. It's an environmental disaster, GHGs being only part of the destruction. What party is going to stand up and say Canada can't be honest on fighting global warming and yet allow tar sands development/operation to continue, much less expand? We need firm emission caps and binding reduction targets. There's no other way around it. Global warming is just one of several, inter-related environmental challenges, all of which need to be addressed. If we can't make a meaningful effort on this one, what hope do we have on all the others? When Inuit breast milk in Siberia is so laden with PCBs and Dioxins as to qualify as toxic waste, we need to wake up, RFN. Desertification, resource depletion, species extinction, ground water exhaustion, overpopulation, chemical contamination - the list goes on and on. We need to put our own house in order on this one. The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the Athabasca Tar Sands. It’s an environmental disaster, GHGs being only part of the destruction. What party is going to stand up and say Canada can’t be honest on fighting global warming and yet allow tar sands development/operation to continue, much less expand? We need firm emission caps and binding reduction targets. There’s no other way around it. Global warming is just one of several, inter-related environmental challenges, all of which need to be addressed. If we can’t make a meaningful effort on this one, what hope do we have on all the others? When Inuit breast milk in Siberia is so laden with PCBs and Dioxins as to qualify as toxic waste, we need to wake up, RFN. Desertification, resource depletion, species extinction, ground water exhaustion, overpopulation, chemical contamination - the list goes on and on.

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