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Western States Pledge Emission Cuts
By Richard Martin, 8-24-07
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As promised, the six Western states and two Canadian provinces that make up the Western Climate Initiative have made public their greenhouse-gas reduction goals. The state and provincial governments say they will reduce their aggregate carbon emissions by 15 percent below the 2005 levels by 2020. Like last year’s landmark carbon-reduction legislation passed by California, the Western Climate Initiative goal represents frustration on the part of state and local leaders at inaction on climate change in Washington, D.C.
Created six months ago by the governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, and joined since then by Utah and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and British Columbia, the Climate Initiative says its goals will not replace but augment greenhouse gas-reduction efforts in the individual states. officials say achieving its goal could cut 350 million metric tons of carbon dioxide A 15-percent total reduction would eliminate some 350 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—roughly equivalent to taking 75.6 million cars off the road.
The question now is , why haven’t Colorado and Montana pitched in?
In other energy news:
-- Colorado is the center of the new uranium mining boom, according to a new report out this week from the Environmental Working Group. Mining claims on federal land in the state jumped 239 percent since 2003, the highest growth in the West. Claims across the region climbed to 376,493 last month from 207,540 in January 2003.
-- A state audit released this week shows that the distribution of funds from drilling and mining severance taxes is seriously out of whack. “Governments along the Front Range receive about four times more severance tax money than is generated by those industries locally,” the Rocky Mountain News reports, while “cities, towns and counties in the southwest part of the state - whose industries account for about half the state’s total severance tax revenue - keep only about a fifth of what’s generated there.”
-- Barron’s Silicon Valley editor Eric Savitz, writing on the Seeking Alpha blog, cites an AFX News report that says Intel is considering making acquisitions in the solar energy business. According to anonymous sources, the semiconductor giant has held talks with potential target companies, including some in Germany. The leap from making silicon microchips to solar wafers from silicon would not be too huge, Savitz notes.
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Perhaps Montana and Colo have been watching developments in Europe. See: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2007/08/22/2003375333
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The environmental bullying of new Europe
By Valdis Dombrovskis
Latvia's example is the most acute. After regaining its independence from the Soviet Union, only remnants of the industrial behemoths of the communist era remained.
As trade links with the former Soviet world collapsed, most of these giant firms collapsed. Starting almost from an economic "point zero," Latvian entrepreneurs have built a new and modern economy, based on new and efficient technologies. As a result, Latvia has the lowest per capita greenhouse gas emissions in the EU.
But, despite being the EU's third-poorest country, the European Commission's rulings mean that it must purchase emission quotas from richer and more polluting EU members that have done little to meet their Kyoto commitments. This unbalanced approach is jeopardizing the economic development of Latvia and other vulnerable new member states, while old members enjoy a free ride.
In small economies such as Latvia and many of the other new member states, even one large project is important for the whole country's progress.
The commission's decision to cut their carbon dioxide emissions quotas may lead investors in desperately needed development projects to move outside of the EU, to countries with weaker environmental regulations, where their activities would contribute to higher global emissions. Additional emissions would occur when the goods are transported back to the EU.
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Perhaps Montana and Colo do not want to play Latvia to California or Washington. By the way there are now eight EU countries suing the EU authority over carbon controls.
Is there a shred of common sense left in the environmental movement? I thought it was completely lost when I read the following quote in the Time Magazine list of things to do to stop global warming:
"You could make your own clothes with needle and thread using 100% organic cotton sheared from sheep you raised on a Whole Foods diet".
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/18/asia/AS-GEN-Australia-APEC-Emissions.php
"CANBERRA, Australia: APEC member nations will not accept greenhouse gas emission targets to fight global climate change and creating energy-efficient economies is the way forward, Australia's environment minister said Saturday."
See also this projection on carbon dioxide: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/figure_78.html
By the way, China is hooked on coal and will tolerate daily mining deaths to get it. See: http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/249692
There's a whole new economy coming based on sustainable practices. If China and Australia want to be left behind, fine. (Although I did note in the Australia piece that the government there is advocating more energy efficiency and the planting of trees to mitigate carbon emissions. That's more than our current administration is doing.)
And of course Australia and China aren't going to sign on to the Kyoto protocols when the most powerful country in the world (that would be us) didn't.
We can lead, follow or get out of the way. I see that you're advancing the latter two visions.
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By Craig Moore, 8-03-07
Changed behavior is far more meaningful than continued behavior and buying absolution through a carbon indulgence and afixing a "green" bumper sticker. Holding oneself accountable for the "hard work" and "sacrifice" to make a difference. Here is a personal accountability list of real behavioral modification that makes a meaningful statement about reducing the size of one's carbon shoes.
1. Sell the gas SUV and buy a hybrid SUV.
2. Dump the hot water heater and install an instant on system. Heat only the water needed at the time it is needed.
3. Dump the gas lawnmover and get an electric.
4. Never again burn wood in a fireplace or woodstove. Switch to gas if a fire is desired.
5. Get rid of the charcoal BBQ.
6. Double the insulation in a home's ceiling.
7. Replace leaky windows.
8. Paint the exterior of a home white to reflect summer heat.
9. Plant leafy trees on a home's southern exposure for summer shade and absorbing C02.
10. Keep the thermostat for heating and A/C at 65 during winter days and at 80 during summer days.
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I might add that 1. would be even more effective if the old vehicle were sent to the crusher rather than recycled thru the used vehicle market. From the EIA website that I provided above, carbon emissions are projected to go way up for many years. However, US emissions have been going down. China doesn't give a damn about US leadership on any issue. China sends us poisonous food for humans and animals, puts lead paint
on toys, and pirates our software. They march their own way.
I disagree with any government action that is merely ceremonial for symbolic reasons when the citizens must incur sacrifices and bear the cost. There must be demonstrable results like with seatbelt laws and immunization programs that save lives. There must be a purpose, a cost, and a real benefit that the citizens can see and experience. Costly symbolic measures are best left for individuals to make up their own minds as to how much they are willing to spend without requiring their neighbors to join in.
By the way Pete, APEC is much larger than just China and Australia. Asking Montana to play Latvia to California and Washington's EU heavy weight status is not the way to go. Re-read my first comment.
So the people are going to rise up en masse and spontaneously adopt your suggestions? No government programs, incentives or encouragement (or discouragement, as the case may be).
It's all going to market driven, right? Just like when gas went well over $3 a gallon and folks were rushing to trade in their Hummers and dually-crew cabs for Prius'. Not.
As to your claim that China doesn't give a damn about U.S. leadership on any issue: just slap some tariffs on their imports and see what happens. That'll get their attention (although I know that the T-word isn't one of your favorites).
You'll also have to explain to me how Montana is going to become a "Latvia" to California. Montana exports more energy than it produces, much of it from hydro and some from wind, to places like California. Maybe California will become a "Latvia" to Montana.
"Sustainability" seems to be in vogue again as an overall encompassing balance concept of life on Earth. How are we any smarter than when Mr. Seebrook wrote his column in 2002? At the Denver convention will the D's put forth a version of the UN's Article 21?
I will listen to Al Gore when he has his planes, limos, big vehicles turned into the recycler, turns his 20,000 sf house into a homeless shelter, or a hostel for a lot of people and lives in a couple of thousand feet like ordinary people. I will listen when he gets his message out on the net instead of encouraging millions of "believers" to attend his services by driving and paying to attend. I will listen when he again uses the internet instead of concerts all over the world, trashing lots of land, expending millions of gallons of gas, filling the landfills with trash, etc. In other words the "believers" are going to have to walk the walk instead of talking the talk you demand that others take.
I think I read that a judge is demanding that President Bush do something about global warming! Pretty funny when he is setting by example all of the things that the enviros want others to do....to leave more for them to consume I guess.
One of the biggest issues with sustainability is the word itself -- it means so many different things to different people -- from screwing in a fluorescent bulb to living in a mud hut. The reality lies somewhere in between but the sooner we embrace the trend, the easier the transition will be.
I read Jeremy Seebrook's article in the Guardian with interest, however, I couldn't agree less. This black-and-white argument of saving the Earth or saving the economy leaves out so many variables. I believe there is middle ground, and that there's also great opportunity for those who recognize a new, sustainable economy.
There have been massive economic shifts in the past: the industrial revolution and the information age as examples. The sustainable economy could be, should be, the next chapter (or else we're all screwed). And again, the sooner, the better, unless we want to see the radical lifestyle shift that the global-warming naysayers use to scare us all.
Finally, Craig, you can't really be serious about a column. I've tried one in the past and occasionally write a bit now. It's that discipline/consistency thing that trips me up.
And Marion, I'm sure there are hypocrites in the sustainability movement -- is there any movement that doesn't have 'em? The folks I know that are advancing sustainability don't have private jets, limos or 20,000 sq. ft. homes. They're working locally with businesses and individuals to help make the transition. See:
(damn, this link triggered New West's spam filter, I think, you'll have to google Missoula Sustainable Business Council)
The organization is in its infancy but it's gaining momentum. And there are like-minded groups around the country/world.
Regarding sustainability, I think it takes having "skin in the game." When one's next step, next meal, next breath depend upon managing resources, those resources tend to thrive. For example, field sportsman have been at the leadership end of conservation and wild animal husbandry since TR. We have wild game today because field sportsman have put their dollars and time into seeing those animals and fish survive and prosper. When we want a certain result in the future we have to work the problem backwards to today and implement those measures that give that future state a reasonable chance of happening. True "sustainability" is about process and moving towards symbiosis in the mutual benefit context, not about another buzz phrase or bumper sticker that comes from the political arena.
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